James Atlas, Author . HarperCollins $25.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-019629-5
Penguin Lives' founding editor Atlas (Bellow; Delmore Schwartz
) offers 11 rather self-involved essays about being in his 50s. The collection hits on various midlife themes—"Mom and Dad" describes Atlas's father's illness...
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James Atlas, Author Random House (NY) $35 (704p) ISBN 978-0-394-58501-7
Long promised and much postponed, this first major biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author proves to be well worth the wait. Atlas's vigorous and incisive portrait grows out of thorough research and intuitive understanding, yielding a sharp-edged
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James Atlas, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (157p) ISBN 978-0-393-03413-4
Since the 1987 publication of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind , the question of whether that body of works referred to as either the Classics or Great Books should be required reading for college students has divided academia....
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James Atlas. Pantheon, $28.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-101-87169-0
Atlas (My Life in the Middle Ages), a biographer and longtime contributor to the New Yorker, illuminates the art of writing a biography in this witty, conscientious, and perceptive work. Atlas grapples with what makes a good biographer (total...
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