Find a Way: 5 Swimming Memoirs For Wave Makers
Diana Nyad's memoir 'Find a Way' is just one of many swimming memoirs in which women battle against the open water.(READ MORE)
Primers
The New Tsar: Putin and the Long Chain of Russian Rulers
To understand Russia today, notes Steven Lee Meyers in The New Tsar, one must understand its past. Here are six books to start.(READ MORE)
Strangers Drowning: A Guide to Selflessness in 5 Books
The people in Larissa MacFarquhar’s new book, Strangers Drowning, go above and beyond a typical charitable deed.(READ MORE)
How the World Moves: 5 Books on Native American History
For oft-forgotten stories on native american history and culture, explore these 5 biographies and memoirs.(READ MORE)
A Better Life Beyond: 5 Books on the History of Forced Migration
The past hundred years have witnessed wave after wave of displaced people fleeing uninhabitable homelands, hoping sometimes for a better life, sometimes just survival. (READ MORE)
A Reader’s Guide to the 2015 Emmys
With scores of great programs at the 2015 Emmy Awards, we're highlighting a handful based on biographies and memoirs.(READ MORE)
Before Bernie: A Brief History of American Progressivism
From abolition, to suffrage, to class and income inequality, the history of american progressivism has been a shaper of shifting cultural tides. (READ MORE)
A Love Affair with Literature: The House of Twenty Thousand Books
Sasha Abramsky, author of The House of Twenty Thousand Books, writes about the expansive socialist library of his grandfather, Chimen Abramsky.(READ MORE)
From Seles to Serena: 5 Books on the Most Notable Ladies of Tennis
It’s hard to remember that not that long ago, women’s tennis was barely considered a legitimate pursuit. Now men’s matches are almost a footnote to the story of Serena Williams.(READ MORE)
Inspecting ‘Specter’ Fiction: When Absent Characters Loom Large
Sometimes a reader can be most emotionally affected by a character who doesn’t appear on the page at all. Welcome to 'specter fiction.'(READ MORE)