Q&A: A. Scott Berg on His Classic Max Perkins Biography, Now a Big Movie Starring Jude Law
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A Profile of the Legendary Editor of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Wolfe
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5 Hot Books: A Compelling Oral History of the 1960s, the Science of Humans at War, and More
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And an Insider's Account of the Landmark Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Read MoreQ&A: Cameron Stracher, on His Darkly Comic Novel About a Troubled Law School
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An institution “filled with human beings who should have known better”
Read MoreREVIEW: A Stunning New Novel of Historical Horrors, from Africa to America
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Giving a Voice to those Whose Voices Have Been Suppressed
Read MoreESSAY: What "Everybody Wants Some!!" and "Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life" Say About Growing Up Male
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A Movie and a Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Memoir that are Wise about What it Means to Become a Man
Read More5 Hot Books: The GOP's Secret Plan for World Dominance, a Highly Anticipated Novel on the Manson Family Women & More
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And Linda Greenhouse Explores the Often-Overlooked Burger Era on the Supreme Court
Read MoreREAD THIS: Susan Faludi Travels to Budapest to Find Her Estranged Father — an Anti-Nazi Hero, a Jew-in-Denial, and Now, a Woman
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A Memoir that Speaks to Our Age of Contested Identities
Read MoreREVIEW: Jean Thompson's Brilliant New Novel is a Thelma & Louise for Our Time
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A Wise Novel About an Intense Female Friendship
Read More5 Hot Book: Learning Tennis Late in Life, the Amazing World of Service Dogs, and More
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And a Novel About the Aftermath of a Plane Crash off Martha's Vineyard
Read MoreESSAY: Playing Readers for Fools: Game of Thrones, the TV Series, Has Pulled Ahead of the Books
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These are Hard Times for Fans Who Want to Read the Series Before they See It
Read MoreREVIEW: Fed Up With Politicians? A Leading Historian Explains Why They're America's True Heroes
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Leaders Like FDR and Lyndon Johnson Had a Knack for Getting Important Things Done
Read MoreREVIEW: Yes, Disadvantaged Kids Can Excel in School -- Paul Tough Explains How
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Changing Kids' Environments, in School and Out, Can Improve their Outcomes
Read More5 Hot Books: New Sebastian Junger, and Gov. Hickenlooper's Honest Memoir
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And a Sprawling Novel about Race and Horse Racing
Read MoreQ&A: A New York Times Reporter Tells the Inside Story of Triple Crown Winner American Pharoah
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A Good-Natured Horse, who Was the First Triple Crown Winner in 37 years
Read MoreREVIEW: When Oneida, N.Y. was a Center of Utopianism, Eugenics, and Free Love
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As Told by a Historian who is also a Descendant of Oneida's Wild and Woolly Utopians
Read More5 Hot Books: A Rollicking-Good Book About the Rolling Stones, a Shrill Woman Speaks, and More
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And the History of Paper You Didn't Know You Needed
Read MoreREVIEW: Laid-Off Journalist Joins Inane Start-Up -- You'll Never Guess What Happens Next
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A Sharply Written Memoir About Life in the the Bubble -- in More Ways than One
Read MoreREVIEW: Was 1960's Liberalism the Cause of Today's Overincarceration Crisis?
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A Harvard historian links our Crowded Prisons to President Johnson's War on Poverty
Read MoreNEWS: What One Book Would Tom Hanks Take With Him to a Desert Island?
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He Gave his Answer on a Recent Episode of BBC's "Desert Island Discs" Radio Show
Read More5 HOT BOOKS: Don DeLillo's Big New Novel, Pit Bulls, and a Gay Conversion Therapy Memoir
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And a fiction anthology about the loss of privacy in modern society
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