Malcolm X was murdered forty-nine years ago this week in 1965. Biographer Manning Marable brings his complexities to life in the Pulitzer-winning Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.(READ MORE)
In his new book Call Me Burroughs, Barry Miles brings the story behind this would-be invisible man into sharp focus, doing his subject justice and giving readers the great gift of a clear look at an important artist.(READ MORE)
In Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn, Samantha Gefter explores the universe and her own career as a science writer. (READ MORE)
Betty Medsger’s story of The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI is as relevant today as it was forty-plus years ago. (READ MORE)
In his new memoir Little Failure, a twenty-something Gary Shteyngart visits the (now closed) Strand Book Store Annex in downtown Manhattan on his two-hour lunch breaks and encounters a discomfiting image that brings him back to his Russian roots. Nathan Gelgud captures his experience with these illustrations. (READ MORE)
In his new book 'Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality,' a hybrid of theory and memoir, MIT physics professor and cosmologist Max Tegmark explains a version of reality made up entirely of math.(READ MORE)
Nathan Gelgud creates illustrations inspired by A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning. (READ MORE)
This Christmas, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty hits theaters, adapted from a 1939 short story by James Thurber. Before escaping the dinner table for the cineplex, if you can get away with some light reading, you might consider Thurber's pseudo-autobiography My Life and Hard Times.(READ MORE)
Nathan Gelgud illustrates his interpretation of Stéphane Gerson's biography of Nostradamus, Renaissance physician-astrologer and "prophet of doom." (READ MORE)
Next week, moviegoers will catch up with their favorite diminutive adventurer Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. They might begin the journey with Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, the author who created the universe of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit in his original...(READ MORE)
