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.

The Strength of the Few is an awe-inspiring, emotionally brutal and brilliantly constructed sequel in the Hierarchy series ...

"If you’ve ever savored a beloved series of books, found comfort in your loneliness in the companionship of a literary ...

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 ...

Hai is 19 and suicidal. Grazina is 81 and living alone with dementia. So when she strikes a deal to house him so they can keep each other company in exchange for his help as a kind of unofficial ...

What: Discussion with Anne Snyder, editor-in-chief of Comment Magazine and author of the 2019 book, “The Fabric of Character: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Renewing Our Social and Moral Landscape.” It’s ...

Shawn Reilly Simmons, president of Level Best Books, uses her background as a movie set caterer, to bring the right ingredients to the filming of a horror movie in “Craft and Consequences.” Alan ...

“You better let me take this. They’d never believe it coming from you.” That’s legendary New York Times editor R.W. Apple at the end of a particularly expensive dinner with Times colleague Joseph ...