ESSAY: We are in a “Camus Moment” — but What Can the Great French-Algerian Author Teach Us About the World Today?
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It's all the rage these days to cite Camus as an expert on colonialism, terrorism, and East-West relations
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NEWS: Hulu Announces a Big New Adaptation of Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"
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The good news: it could hardly be worse than the 1990 movie adaptation
Read More5 Hot Books: A Rich Memoir of Older Women Playing Bridge, a Novel of an Unhappy Family, and More
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And a Princeton Historian's Look Back at the Long Gas Lines of the 1970s
Read MoreREVIEW: "Shelter" is a Compelling Novel of the Sometimes Chilly Bond Between Child and Parents
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And there are some serious tragedies and dramas added to the mix
Read MoreQ&A: Burt Neuborne on "Madison's Music," a Bold New Approach to Interpreting the Constitution
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Reading the Constitution with an eye toward poetry and music
Read MoreNEWS: New York Times Closing its Paris-Based Editing Offices, Ending a Journalism Era
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As many as 70 jobs will be lost or relocated, the latest casualties in a time of shrinking budgets
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Michael Kinsley on Old Age, a New Barbra Streisand Biography, and More
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And Pride and Prejudice Transferred to Modern-Day Cincinnatti
Read MoreRant: Why Is George R. R. Martin Writing His Books So Slowly--and Why are they Getting So Long?
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With our adoration, we give him this power
Read MoreNEWS: Tonight is the Start of Passover, and We Now Know What Albert Einstein Thought About It
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There was one thing about the holiday that he fully believed in
Read MoreREVIEW: "Lab Girl" is the Story of a Brilliant Woman Scientist With Literary Flair
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A passion for plant science -- and a drive to overcome obstacles
Read MoreQ&A: Adina Hoffman on Three Architects Who Built the Modern City of Jerusalem
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One Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, one British colonial, and one whose origins are mysterious
Read MoreHot 5: A Delightful Tale of Mark Twain's Round-the-World Speaking Tour, the Meaning of the Ghetto, and More
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And a sociological look at the history of the ghetto
Read MoreOUR FAVORITE BOOKSTORES: Detroit's Shabby, Wonderful John K. King Used & Rare Books
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All of Mr. King’s resources were spent on what is actually important: over one million books
Read MoreREVIEW: Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman Reflects on 20 Years of Speaking Truth to Power
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Her account is as much media criticism as political critique
Read More5 Hot Books: Hamilton, the Brilliant Musical – Now a Brilliant Book, Rethinking Thomas Jefferson, and More
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And an anthology by writers, mainly, on the books that changed their lives
Read MoreVIDEO: Today is Lyricist Yip Harburg's Birthday -- Here He Is Singing "Over the Rainbow" and Explaining the Idealism Behind It
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He says he wanted to create a "better world, a rainbow world"
Read MoreQ&A: The Pioneering Female New Deal Lawyer Who Went from an Orphan's Home to the Supreme Court
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Bessie Margolin shaped equal rights law for generations -- and prosecuted Nazis
Read MoreREVIEW: When America's First Serial Killer Preyed on the Women of 19th Century Texas
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A story of violent crime, race, and small-town Austin on its way to becoming a big-league city
Read More5 Hot Books: A Journalist Investigates Her Rapist, Trying to Make Sense of the Middle East, and More
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And an acclaimed memoirist's appreciation of soul singer James Brown
Read MoreReview: A History of a Smallpox Epidemic in 1721 Boston that Puts Colonial New England Under the Microscope
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It's a story that fans of medical history will find hard to resist
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