All Books
- 'The Jefferson Rule' argues against mythologizing America's Founding Fathers
Historian David Sehat makes a strong case that forefather worship has had a pernicious effect on American politics.
- 'A God in Ruins' is Kate Atkinson's brilliant follow-up to 'Life After Life'
Atkinson has a written what looks like a big, old-fashioned book – but watch out for the trickery.
- Bestselling books the week of 5/28/15, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at independent bookstores across America.
- 'Reagan' by H.W. Brands notes Reagan's failings, yet insists on his greatness
A new biography posits Reagan as one of the two most important figures in 20th-century American politics.
- 'Man in Profile' is a splendid new biography of fabled New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell
Thomas Kunkel offers a portrait of a writer who specialized in finding great characters, real and imagined.