The Great Pretender, by Susannah Cahalan

The Great Pretender, by Susannah Cahalan, is one of the most extraordinary, best written works of nonfiction I think I’ve … More

The Queen, by Josh Levin

The phrase “welfare queen” has been around all my life, but I never knew where it came from. I never … More

Having a loved one diagnosed with stage three esophageal cancer means a lot of things, not least of which is … More

Trigger warnings for discussion of rape and suicide. When she was eight years old, Dina Nayeri’s mother began to be … More

Stefan Zweig’s writing seems to be everywhere since The Grand Budapest Hotel came out. Zweig was an essayist, journalist, and … More

Shaun Bythell continues to recount his adventures as the proprietor of the Bookshop, in Wigtown, Scotland, in Confessions of a … More

They say that the only things that are inevitable are death and taxes. This aphorism leaves out of a lot … More

There wasn’t just an influenza pandemic at the end of World War I. There was also a pandemic of a, … More

Journalist David French arrived in New York City just as news of the first reported cases of HIV/AIDS made national … More

Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson’s second memoir, picks up some time after Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. Where the first book … More