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The weekly book reviews like such highbrow biographies as Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf (the New York Times Book Review ) and Jorge Castañeda's Compañero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara (Richard Eder, the Los Angeles Times ). Other reviewers fill their lists with celebrity memoirs, especially Mia Farrow's What Falls Away --a trend some critics bemoan.
But though the first two of these biographies are excellent and the third one dreadful, they all butt up against the same generic problem.
And journalists started doing narratives and biographies, like Lemann or Sam Tanenhaus or J. Anthony Lukas.
Though less original and not as fully realized, these books reminded me of a pair of recent literary appreciations: Hermione Lee's mammoth biography of Virginia Woolf, and Alain de Botton's idiosyncratic, obsessive How Proust Can Change Your Life . All four books share a playful disregard for the rules that usually govern high-minded "intellectual" biographies.
Lukacs' courtly prose can mask the bold scope of his ambitions: Besides critiquing Hitler biographies, Lukacs is also advancing his own reading of Hitler.