During WWII, five of Hollywood's most successful directors donated their careers to the war effort. Mark Harris's Five Came Back explains how they made art out of propaganda and refined their voices, shaping mainstream cinema in the years to come.
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The famed biographer of John Cheever and Richard Yates discusses the tenuous bond between him and his self-destructive brother, whose suicide provides the basis of his new memoir, The Splendid Things We Planned.
In The Thing with Feathers, Noah Strycker writes about the humanity of animals, which raises the question: how do we justify killing them?
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.
Every week Carl Wilson looks at the events of the past seven days in the mirror of art and culture. This week: The only one who could ever reach us was that sunuvabitch of a preacher man. (Or, The Rotten of the Patriarchs.)
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