Henry Martin: An Active Ear

The remarkable art critic, curator, and translator Henry Martin finally gets to be the subject of focus in a new volume compiled and introduced by Emanuele Guidi.

Reviewed by Richard Kostelanetz

Polymath

Best known for the 1972 smash hit The Joy of Sex, the protean author Alex Comfort was actually a respected public intellectual influential in a variety of fields, as detailed in this new biography by Eric Laursen.

Reviewed by Richard Kostelanetz