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Like the stunning poems of his collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Vuong’s kaleidoscopic first novel speaks from the... Read more

In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes seri... Read more

Theranos, founded in 2003 by nineteen-year-old wunderkind Elizabeth Holmes, promised to revolutionize blood testing by d... Read more

The Water Dancer is a bracingly original vision of the world of slavery, written with the narrative force of a great adv... Read more

Blight, the award-winning author of histories including American Oracle and Race and Reunion, is perhaps the foremost Fr... Read more

Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these charged sonnets mark “the umpteenth slump / In ... Read more

Tolentino, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2016, has quickly become one of the most exciting and authoritative cr... Read more

In his eye-opening memoir, Adults in the Room, Varoufakis, Greece’s former Finance Minister, recounts his frustrating st... Read more

A scholar and journalist based in St. Louis, Kendzior was alert to the struggles of America’s disaffected heartland well... Read more

In Doing Justice, one-time federal prosecutor Preet Bharara uses case histories, personal experiences, and his own invit... Read more

McCabe started working at the FBI in 1996 and served in many capacities, from street agent on the Eurasian Organized Cri... Read more

Ryan has been a White House correspondent for the American Urban Radio Networks since the Clinton administration, but wi... Read more

One of our most respected and experienced futurists, Webb argues in her new book that the main danger posed by artificia... Read more

Gerald’s extraordinary memoir cuts a swath through a dizzying number of socio-cultural sectors, enacting an American dre... Read more

A self-described political outsider, Dorey-Stein came to the Obama White House via Wesleyan, teaching high school Englis... Read more

After writing To Kill a Mockingbird and helping her lifelong friend Truman Capote research In Cold Blood, the late Harpe... Read more

As the national debate over slavery grew more impassioned in the 1840s and 1850s, local brush-fires throughout the natio... Read more

John Kerry has devoted his life to public service. Since he testified in front of Congress as a decorated young Vietnam ... Read more

A veteran investigative reporter and author of Desperados, the basis for Michael Mann's NBC miniseries Drug Wars, Shanno... Read more

Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer for criticism,  Nussbaum writes about TV like the art that it is. Gathered from some fifteen... Read more