‘Plato and the Tyrant’ humanizes the famous philosopher James Romm’s book is an intellectual thriller, showing how the ancient Greek thinker came to write “The Republic,” his masterpiece ...

Plato Contostavlos, the father of N-Dubz singer Tulisa Contostavlos and keyboard player in the 70s blues band Mungo Jerry, ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

Nonfiction book reviews from The Washington Post.Jonathan Gould’s book “Burning Down the House” traces the band from its early days in 1970s clubs to the kind of celebrity that creates its ...

If Russell regarded “The Nature of Judgment” as Moore’s greatest work, the Bloomsbury Group was in no doubt that Moore’s masterpiece was Principia Ethica, published in 1903. Only a decade or so ...

Talking Heads fans, rejoice! Hard on the heels of the re-release of “Stop Making Sense,” the 1984 Jonathan Demme film widely considered the best concert movie ever made, Jonathan Gould ...

Jonathan Gould has written a group biography of Talking Heads named after one of the band’s biggest hits. Called “Burning Down the House,” the book explores the formation, evolution and ...

Book Review: A new biography goes long and deep on the rise and fall of rock band Talking Heads “Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock” starts with ...