The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen (opens in new tab)

Charles McGrath at The Hudson Review: Whatever happened to short biographies? For what seemed like ages I had in my work room three that I could have piled up and used as a stepladder: Ron Chernow’s 1,200-page life of Mark Twain, Sam Tanenhaus’ 1,040-page biography of William F. Buckley, and True Nature, Lance Richardson’s 736-page life…