Books Archive
Archives for November 2014
The big ideas in Zero to One, the new book by PayPal billionaire Peter Thiel are neither as original nor as useful as he wants us to think.
Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped is a story about both life and death
Who in the Obama family is reading Heart of Darkness?
There really, truly is no one “best diet”
British cops don’t shoot civilians because British cops don’t carry guns.
It’s the least of the films — but it also might be the most gleefully subversive.
Neither the House or Senate had ever sued the administration before.
Maybe you’re just getting into The Hunger Games. That’s cool — and you have some awesome books and movies to catch up with. Here are some questions you might have.
One of the things that this dystopian world understands (that American society might still be missing) is that a woman doesn’t need to be likable to be respected.
At the National Book Awards, Lemony Snicket thought it funny to make a black person-watermelon joke.
Her most incendiary thoughts were reserved for the recent pricing disagreements between publisher Hachette Book Group and online retail giant Amazon.
Stephen Colbert invited award-winning American novelist Toni Morrison on his show on Wednesday.
Here are our reviews for the books nominated for this year’s National Book Award in each category:
A conversation with the editor and the founder of The Marshall Project
Disney’s The Little Mermaid turns 25 today. The animated classic is known for a singing mermaid who combs her hair with forks and a comical West Indian crab, but the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale that inspired the film is a much darker, much mor