Fine Writing that is a Break from Our Current Chaos

A Man’s Meditation on Homeland and Exile

“It’s a long game,” McCracken says. “That’s all I ever want to impart to my students.”

From that Famous Man-Made Monster, to Native American Tales of Horror

A Family Memoir that Strongly Resonates with the Current Political Climate

Like a lot of Americans, I’ve spent the last decade dealing with one Trump generated national embarrassment after the next

The Civil Right’s Leader’s Radical Style of Opposition May Be What We Need More of Today

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson Give a Fascinating Blow-by-Blow of How it All Went Awry

Ludwig Argues that Gun Violence Can Often Be Avoided through Simple Interventions

An Iconic Woman Whose Life Combined Religion, Celebrity, and Scandal

The Protagonists are a Pair of Siblings who are Forced to Fend for Themselves

For Seaman, books are touchstones, companions, and portals to discovery.

A story about power, economic inequality, and the struggle to imagine a future less dependent on fossil fuels

Talking about the engaging, propulsive new novel ‘Cadenza’ — and more

He Brilliantly Takes on Some of Our Greatest Fears about What the Future May Hold

He Was the First President to be the Recipient of a Presidential Transfer of Power

She Was Derided as “Plastic Pat,” but Fought Behind the Scenes for Her Causes — Including Women’s Rights

He Appeared on Long Island with a Business Card that Read “George Gordon Moore, Capitalist”

A Story of Challenges, Hidden Family History, and Questions about Belonging

The author did not want this novel published, but it was still worth doing

On Researching a Novel, Writing Protagonists, and More

An extended meditation on what it means to write amid our escalating crises of extinction and climate change