In 'Gandhi Before India,' just published in the United States as the first installment of a two-part biography, historian Ramachandra Guha highlights the non-violent leader's early failures as fundamental to his later accomplishments. (READ MORE)
Getting ready for the blooms of spring and summer with a preview of 'Chasing the Rose: An Adventure in the Venetian Countryside,' available May 6.(READ MORE)
In Bruno Bettelheim’s endlessly fascinating The Uses of Enchantment, he reminds reader to look beyond reality.(READ MORE)
'How About Never — Is Never Good For You?: My Life in Cartoons,' a new memoir by Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker, brings traveling strangers together. (READ MORE)
'Sous Chef' author Michael Gibney creates from the present moment in developing his culinary expertise and narrative point of view. (READ MORE)
Jake Gyllenhaal will star in "Everest," an upcoming film based on Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air." Learn how rock climbing taught Krakauer how to structure and outline his writing. (READ MORE)
As Carl Hoffman details in the groundbreaking new book "Savage Harvest," 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller disappeared while traveling to New Guinea in 1961 on a quest to collect what was then called "primitive" art.(READ MORE)
In recent weeks, I've returned to one of my most indispensable collections, The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers On Their Craft, with VIDA's findings in mind. (READ MORE)
In his new memoir, The Splendid Things We Planned, Blake Bailey stitches together a complicated family portrait reminiscent of his literary biographies of John Cheever, Richard Yates, and Charles Jackson. (READ MORE)
Edmund White creates a beautiful portrait of his friendship with Marie-Claude de Brunhoff in his new memoir, 'Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris.' (READ MORE)
