Here Are Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Reading isn’t dead yet! In fact, 2018 was another banner year for great works of nonfiction, including, if you’ll pardon the nepotism, a pair of bestsellers penned by our own editorial staffers. Reporter Shane Bauer’s American Prison—spun out from his gripping, National Magazine Award-winning account…
17 Great Fiction Reads to Take Your Mind off Trump
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Between your pinging cellphone, America’s bitter politics, and the orange one’s deranged tweeting habit, you would be forgiven for wanting to divorce yourself from reality for a while. So, at the end of this very long year, we have just the answer you need: Xanax.…
What the Cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Got Wrong
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg places some items in her bag before speaking at Georgetown Law School, Friday, April 6, 2018, in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP Photo Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On the Basis of Sex, a feature film on the pioneering legal work of Supreme Court Justice Ruth…
John Adams’ Fears About America’s Future Feel Pretty Darn Prescient Today
National Gallery of Art Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. During America’s first Gilded Age, in 1898, Sen. Mark Hanna was sufficiently candid when asked about his political principles. There are two political truths, the Ohio Republican observed: “The first is money. I can’t remember what the second is.” Now, during…
Alec Byrne Had Unparalleled Access to ’60s and ’70s Rock Heavyweights. His New Book Reflects How Special That Was.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. My advice: This is the book to get that special person who loves both ’60s and ’70s rock and roll and photography—even if that special person is yourself. Gorgeously packaged in a case made to look like a box of Kodak photo paper, London Rock:…
Hoods, Hazing, and Heavy Drinking: A Look Inside an Elite University’s Fraternity Culture
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When photographer Andrew Moisey entered his brother’s fraternity house in 2000, Greek culture—and the toxic male culture often associated with it—had yet to encounter the kind of scrutiny it is experiencing today, and the United States was about to elect George W. Bush, a leader Moisey refers to as…