2012 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Biography Winner and Nominees

The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew: Modern Pots, Colonialism, and the Counterculture

Tanya Harrod

British studio potter Michael Cardew (1901-1983) was a man of paradox, a modernist who disliked modernity, a colonial servant who despised Empire, and an intellectual who worked with his hands. After graduating from Oxford in 1923, he made majestic slipwar…

Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea

Thomas Wright

Joseph Anton: A Memoir

Salman Rushdie

Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

Michael Gorra