In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn—then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage—set out on... Read More

  A top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law... Read More

James McMullan was born in Tsingtao, North China, in 1934, the grandson of missionaries who settled there. As a little... Read More

A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch’s sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups,... Read More

As children, Ava and her brother Fred were raised in a "free" environment. Their parents, progressive educators and followers of... Read More

Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict... Read More

In CIA parlance, those who knew were “witting.” Everyone else was among the “unwitting.”   On a bright November day in... Read More

In this touching and informative memoir about foraging for food in New York City, Ava Chin finds sustenance…and so much... Read More

The northwest corner of Yellowstone Park is closed for bear management, and Rachel, a bear biologist, is discovering some very... Read More

When bleeding heart Melody Frank blows the whistle on her boss, she gets fired from her social services job, and... Read More