With The Divide, Matt Taibbi—former “gonzo” journalist, according to other journalists—has produced a lucid, but pointed examination on the absurd matter of who goes to jail and who doesn’t.
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Ramachandra Guha’s new biography, Gandhi Before India, reveals that even saints can act like mere mortals—and how refreshing it can be to see the faults in our leaders, enlightened and otherwise.
Two new novels—Kenneth Calhoun’s Black Moon and Karen Russell’s Sleep Donation—depict epidemics of insomnia as apocalyptic nightmares, while revealing the true value of sleep: the chance to clear our heads and define our desires.
What can Charlie Chaplin’s only novel—published in February for the first time ever—tell us about an icon whose legend has seemingly ossified?
Most books about F. Scott Fitzgerald—including Sarah Churchwell's Careless People—are books about Zelda, who was too often reduced to material in her husband's stories. What most people don't know is that she wrote her own novel.
Earth is doomed—to science fiction writers, always, and increasingly to the rest of us. Enter Mars Literature: a surprisingly hopeful subgenre that might contain the clues to our species' survival.
The author meets an old carny who could have been stripped from the pages of her new novel.
Remembering one of the masters of the modern short story, who died today at the age of 91. The author recounts the lessons he learned from his all too brief run-ins with the expatriate Canadian writer.
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