You can tell a lot about a person from his tattoos. Generally, if someone has gone through the process of choosing a tattoo and actually getting inked, the image he committed to displaying permanently on his skin must be pretty significant to him in some way. And as someone with more than a few tattoos […]
Stacy Schiff gets it. She gets people. She studies lives tirelessly and fiercely and perfectly, and when she is finished studying, she publishes works of flawlessly interpreted, beautiful and meticulously researched prose. Her biographies have reawakened my love of history, and given me the gift of feeling well-informed and eloquent when defending powerful women, dropping […]