Just 22 and still a student, Nelio Biedermann has been compared to Thomas Mann thanks to “Lázár,” his sweeping family saga. By Thomas Rogers A new book by the historian Melvin Patrick Ely draws on ...

The painter Johannes Vermeer was born in Delft in 1632 and died there in 1675. In this biography, Graham-Dixon—the author of a vigorous account of the life of Caravaggio, from 2010—deals with the ...

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