A WORLD BENEATH THE SANDSThe Golden Age of EgyptologyBy Toby Wilkinson No civilization has visited itself upon the Western imagination as powerfully as that of…
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‘Billion Dollar Loser’ Recounts WeWork’s Big Dreams and Its Harsh Wake-Up Call
It took reading 50 pages of “Billion Dollar Loser,” Reeves Wiedeman’s new book about WeWork and its co-founder Adam Neumann, before I wrote my first…
Yes, Books Were Bound in Human Skin. An Intrepid Librarian Finds the Proof.
DARK ARCHIVESA Librarian’s Investigation Into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human SkinBy Megan Rosenbloom Full disclosure: I was not eager to read…
Book Eat The Buddha by Barbara Demick tells story of people of Tibet
You can crush a country but not the people’s spirit: New book tells the tragic story of the people of Tibet Eat The Buddha is…
What Bryan Washington Is Cooking
When describing his new book, “Memorial,” Bryan Washington has called it a gay slacker dramedy, a lowercase love story and a novel about the creases…
Invasion of the Memory Snatchers
Every neighborhood is haunted. Just ask its youngest residents. The window wells are goblin pockets. Demons perch on power lines. Hedges conceal toothy horrors. These…
It's lousy being a luvvie
It’s lousy being a luvvie: Bitchy reviews, poor pay, stage fright, drunken co-stars… a riotous new history of the theatre reveals a litany of farce…
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Journalism is a tribe, no doubt. But I swear it’s just a coincidence that six of the nine books we recommend this week are by…
Is Math Too Tidy to Be Useful?
COUNTINGHow We Use Numbers to Decide What MattersBy Deborah Stone The title of “Counting” contains some revealing wordplay: To count is to tally things up…
Matthew McConaughey Wrote the Book on Matthew McConaughey
In his memoir, “Greenlights,” the star of “Dazed and Confused” and “Dallas Buyers Club” shares lessons from a life in which he turned out all…