With “Crick: A Mind in Motion,” the British biologist Matthew Cobb aims for the tricky “middle path”: a life vivid enough to ...

In “The Fire,” the reporter Cecilia Sala travels to Iran, Ukraine and Afghanistan and follows her generation into the fray.

Atwood’s memoir Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts was published on November 4, 2025, quickly becoming a New York Times bestseller. Kirkus Reviews just named Atwood’s Book of Lives to its Best ...

It is no surprise that demand and interest for the memoir written by JD Vance, the newly-minted Republican nominee for vice president is jumping. For the Columbus Metropolitan Library, they were able ...

In his 2023 book The Art Thief, author Michael Finkel crucially observed (my book review here) that “art is the result of facing almost no survival pressure of all.” So true, and it raises an exciting ...

Every year since 2014, I’ve set aside a couple of months to sit down with what amounts to a long shelf of poetry published in the past 12 months. My goal is to review 31 single-author volumes, one for ...

Back in 1982, and amid the proliferation of “Handbooks,” John and Porter Freund released The Official MBA Handbook. It was a tongue-in-cheek guide for MBAs eager to prosper, and my MBA father ...

Cait Corrain was about to achieve the dream of every aspiring writer by publishing her first novel. Instead, her career has imploded following a controversy involving Goodreads, the popular ...

Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7.