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'Magpie Murders' author Anthony Horowitz delivers remarkable twist on the classic whodunnitThe bestselling British author and screenwriter is making his own bid for detective story immortality with an astonishing Golden Age-style mystery novel.
'American Fire' spotlights a troubling rural arson spree solved by old-fashioned legworkThe new book by Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse is one of the year's best and most unusual true-crime books.
Happy birthday to Henry David Thoreau – an inconvenient yet invaluable friendI didn't take much to Thoreau the first time I read him. He's been proving me wrong ever since.
The perfect beach read for this summer? Robert Louis StevensonStevenson offers another possibility for reading that seems worth exploring in this season of our political discontent.
'Giant of the Senate' author Al Franken is back to 'The Funny'Al Franken's humor is back at full strength in his new book, which is a memoir of the former 'Saturday Night Live' writer's journey to the NBC institution and his more recent time in politics.
4 revelations in Robert Caro's new audio projectHistorian Robert Caro shares some important lessons learned in his new audio project 'On Power.'
Inside the hidden history of confederate memorialsIt was largely women who led the drive to get their communities to embrace Civil War monuments.
How World War I changed AmericaA new book by a Library of Congress historian unearths once-forgotten tidbits of history related to the Great War.
How the Bank of England took a page from Dr. SeussThe Bank of England hopes to make their reports more understandable by imitating the famed children's book author's concise, simple writing style.
How Muhammad Ali fought the law ... and won'Sting Like a Bee' author Leigh Montville explains how the fabled boxer vanquished the Vietnam draft.
Why Michael Bloomberg says he's 'optimistic' about climate changeFormer New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is coauthor of 'Climate of Hope,' a solution-oriented book about what individuals and governments can and should be doing about climate change.
What's that hot new category for kids? Religious booksDespite struggle in other genres, religious books aimed at children have seen an impressive and steady increase in sales over the past decade.
The Colorado: how a river rules the westIn his new book, 'Where the Water Goes,' journalist David Owen takes readers inside the topsy-turvy world of Western water.
As colleges ditch books, the future of the campus library is changingAs major universities like UC Berkeley abandon traditional book collections, the role of campus libraries is starting to look a little different from the good old days of an offline era.
Five surprising facts about ProtestantismBritish historian Alec Ryrie chronicles the epic drama of a faith that he portrays as vibrant, diverse, and confounding.
When New York City stood on the brink'Fear City' tracks New York's devastating brush with bankruptcy.
More 'Rebirth' titles arrive, stirring additional mystery for comic book superheroesKudos to the folks creating these comics, who are taking 80-year-old characters and making them fresh and exciting.
How Pablo Neruda helped me appreciate Poetry Month – and much moreOne of Neruda’s continuing themes was the way that basic objects, like tables and chairs, soap and socks, a dictionary or a pair of scissors, can seem magical when glanced at a slightly different angle.
What Gay Talese has to teach us in an age of social mediaThe iconic magazine piece 'Frank Sinatra Has a Cold' has lessons – and surprises – for today's journalists.
'Lenin on the Train,' chugging toward historyA new book tracks the future Russian leader on his road to revolution.
