Benjamin Moser

A new and passionate biography of Brazil's most important and legendary writer of the twentieth century. That rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector is one of the most popular but least understood of Latin American writers. After years of research on three continents, drawing on previously unknown manuscripts and dozens of interviews,...

A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age. Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch museums. Soon, he found himself unearthing the strange, inspiring, and sometimes terrifying stories of the artists who...

The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures—her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her private face. Susan Sontag was our last great literary star. Her brilliant, serious mind combined with her striking image, her rigorous intellectualism and her ground-breaking inquiries into what was then seen as 'low culture'—celebrity, photographs, camp—propelled her into...

A charming and highly personal introduction to the artists of the Dutch Golden Age. Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of this new place, he threw himself into the Dutch museums. Soon, he found himself unearthing the strange, inspiring and sometimes terrifying stories of the artists who...