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
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
David Goldfield America Aflame
Counting the costs of America’s “new birth of freedom.”
Books As new books commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War assail readers like a latter-day Pickett’s Charge, at least one volume deserves to break Union lines as the rebels at Gettysburg More
Karen Abbott American Rose
Every Gypsy Rose Lee has her thorns.
Books You are not going to believe this, but not everything you see in Gypsy (the musical or the movie) is strictly true. Thank the goddess of burlesque we have no less a luminary than Karen Abbott (she o the best-selling Sin More
Robert Whitaker Anatomy Of An Epidemic
Yes, Tom Cruise is a loon, but he may be right about psychiatry.
Books Science writer Robert Whitaker’s new book about psychiatric drugs is so depressing, readers may want to reach for a Prozac. They’d be better off ordering a dry martini. Whitaker’s t ... More
Dana Haynes Crashers
The next terrorist mastermind will be Dilbert.
Books When the next 9/11-style terrorist attack strikes the U.S., the plot may include bringing down commercial airliners, but it won’t be led by Osama bin Laden. Instead, the attack will be mastermin ... More
Top Articles from MATT BUCKINGHAM
Robert Whitaker Anatomy Of An Epidemic
Yes, Tom Cruise is a loon, but he may be right about psychiatry. David Goldfield America Aflame
Counting the costs of America’s “new birth of freedom.” Robert C. Donnelly Dark Rose
A soft-boiled history of vice rackets and crooked cops in the City of Bridges. Neal Stephenson Reamde
Neal Stephenson writes another big black book. Dana Haynes Crashers
The next terrorist mastermind will be Dilbert. Thor Hanson Feathers
A Washington naturalist pens a book as light as his subject. Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino Chasing Aphrodite
R. Gregory Nokes Massacred For Gold
Anatomy of a (120-year-old) mass murder. Jim Wallis The Great Awakening
A progressive evangelical’s new book will put his fans to sleep. Convictions, John Kroger
A Lewis & Clark law prof takes true-crime writing to a new level.
Yes, Tom Cruise is a loon, but he may be right about psychiatry. David Goldfield America Aflame
Counting the costs of America’s “new birth of freedom.” Robert C. Donnelly Dark Rose
A soft-boiled history of vice rackets and crooked cops in the City of Bridges. Neal Stephenson Reamde
Neal Stephenson writes another big black book. Dana Haynes Crashers
The next terrorist mastermind will be Dilbert. Thor Hanson Feathers
A Washington naturalist pens a book as light as his subject. Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino Chasing Aphrodite
R. Gregory Nokes Massacred For Gold
Anatomy of a (120-year-old) mass murder. Jim Wallis The Great Awakening
A progressive evangelical’s new book will put his fans to sleep. Convictions, John Kroger
A Lewis & Clark law prof takes true-crime writing to a new level.
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