Jane Isay, author of the just published book Secrets and Lies: Surviving the Truths That Change Our Lives, lists crime novelist among her favorite writers. (READ MORE)
In Girls, we see the gals dancing, eating, crying, and hiding under the covers, but, at least in the trailers, we don’t see them reading much. Perhaps their terribly difficult early adulthoods would be eased by the knowledge that they are far from the first to experience such pain and confusion.(READ MORE)
Enjoy a few unexpected tidbits about the Congolese people and nation that Anjan Sundaram reveals in Stringer, his memoir about leaving his bright future to work as a freelancer reporter in the dangerous and politically corrupt DRC.(READ MORE)
For almost twenty years someone has been dumping the bodies of murdered prostitutes along Suffolk County, NY’s Ocean Parkway. Very little is known about the person who killed these women, and while Robert Kolker explores the mysterious leads, he also sheds light on the lives of the forgotten victims.(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)
Upon hearing of the tumult in her home country, Ahdaf Soueif dashed home to document the protests in Tahrir Square. For more memoirs and biographies about Cairo and Egypt through the ages, check out the following books.(READ MORE)
In Her, the new movie featuring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, and the voice of Scarlett Johansson, writer-director Spike Jonze incorporates the spirit and "voice" of the late Zen philosopher Alan Watts, born on this day in 1915.(READ MORE)
Olivia Laing is on a personal and literary quest in The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, which follows the influence of alcohol in the lives of John Berryman, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Tennessee Williams. (READ MORE)
Goodbye 2013. Hello change. If "write a hugely successful memoir, sell the rights to Hollywood, quit my job, and watch Julia Roberts/Diane Lane/Reese Witherspoon portray me on the big screen" is at the top of your resolutions for the coming year, consider starting your research here.(READ MORE)
Nathan Gelgud creates illustrations inspired by A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning. (READ MORE)
