Volume 36, Number 7 · April 27, 1989
Look Back on Burton
By John Osborne
Richard Burton: A Life
by Melvyn Bragg
Little, Brown, 533 pp., $22.95
On the other side of the Atlantic, my side that is, 'biography' is the current subject of one of those arcane literary debates that weave their way through the weekend feature pages of the posher newspapers and journals, then fade away unnoticed when all interested parties have had their say. Biography: is there too much of it; has it become too intimate, too salacious; are publishers repeating themselves; what do we really need to know? And how much? About whom?
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