Author Archive
October 23, 2017A new book points out that getting buried is a complicated business...
June 22, 2017Nancy MacLean's book stretches back to 19th century Vice President — and ardent secessionist — John C. Calhoun to find the roots of modern libertarianism, which she calls...
May 22, 2017Mary Mann's new book digs into a phenomenon as old as humanity: boredom. Why do we get bored? Is there a cure? Yawn is a thoughtful read, but its mix of autobiography and scholarship...
April 20, 2017No matter what's happening in this new collection of work from the late Filipino writer Nick Joaquin, it's probably already too late — but that doesn't stop his characters from...
March 21, 2017Kim Stanley Robinson envisions a future that's closer than we like to think in New York 2140. Sea levels 50 feet higher have swamped Manhattan, but there's a tiny thread of hope that...
March 3, 2017Glenn Frankel's new book about the making of the classic Western sets its tumultuous production against the backdrop of the Hollywood.
