biography

In David McCullough’s new book “The Wright Brothers,” the mystery is stripped away and we see the brothers for who they really are: two boys from Ohio.

The Kray brothers were British gangsters who menaced London’s East End and Soho nightlife in the Swinging ‘60s. One brother was bad; he was very, very bad. The other brother—he was worse. Tom Hardy plays both.

In Bart Casey’s new biography “The Double Life of Laurence Oliphant,” readers are introduced to a larger-than-life figure of the Victorian era.