Books As the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy assassination nears, in 2013, two out of three Americans still believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in murdering the president. Judyth Vary More
Judyth Vary Baker, Me & Lee
Love means never having to say you shot the president.
Books As the 50th anniversary of the John F. Kennedy assassination nears, in 2013, two out of three Americans still believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in murdering the president. Judyth Vary More
Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
Don’t be evil?
Books Author Robin Sloan’s paean to books—both digital and on paper—is filled with elements so plausible readers will want to Google them to see whether they’re real. And that’s fitting, bec More
Caleb Scharf, Gravity’s Engines
A Columbia astronomer blows bubbles.
Books From what sounds like static, astronomers can discern an image of the entire universe. Explaining how they pull off this trick is the job of writers like Caleb Scharf, director of astrobiology a More
Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
Love letters to Cleo.
Books In 1962, 20th Century Fox made a movie that almost bankrupted the studio and changed Hollywood forever. The epic Cleopatra was shot on location in Italy and Egypt at a cost of more than $40 mill More
Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power
What the hell is history for?
Books Fed up as aides debated whether he should mention civil rights in his first speech to Congress after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson once asked, “What the hell’s the presi More
Vernor Vinge The Children Of The Sky
A Hugo Award-winning novelist goes to the dogs.
Books Almost two decades have elapsed since Vernor Vinge won the Hugo Award for his epic 1992 space opera, A Fire Upon the Deep. Now he returns to Tines World with a sequel, The Children of the Sky (Tor, 4 More
Neal Stephenson Reamde
Neal Stephenson writes another big black book.
Books Neal Stephenson’s new novel is a departure from the epic science-fiction sagas with which he transformed the genre in the 1990s and 2000s. Like some of his previous books, Reamde (William Morrow, More
Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino Chasing Aphrodite
Books In 1984, the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles sold all its stock in Getty Oil and diversified its investment portfolio, almost tripling its original endowment to $2 billion. This made the J. Paul More
Robert C. Donnelly Dark Rose
A soft-boiled history of vice rackets and crooked cops in the City of Bridges.
Books Robert C. Donnelly’s history of organized crime and political corruption in Portland in the 1950s could have been as riveting as a James Ellroy More
Thor Hanson Feathers
A Washington naturalist pens a book as light as his subject.
Books Conservation biologist Thor Hanson has crafted an ambitious work of natural history in Feathers (Basic Books, 336 pages, $25.99). “Ambitious” is often book reviewer shorthand for “an overly lo More
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Neal Stephenson writes another big black book. Thor Hanson Feathers
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