Journalist Tom Roston outlines the story behind Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five, and the wartime trauma that inspired it.
People often think of Elizabeth Barrett Browning as a “swooning poetess,” but Fiona Sampson’s dazzling and absorbing biography is likely to change that.
When Joseph P. Kennedy campaigned to be ambassador to Great Britain, FDR made the appointment despite serious reservations. The result was diplomatic disaster.
New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe’s exhaustive research for Empire of Pain makes him the natural choice to narrate his own audiobook.
Bird argues that Jimmy Carter’s radical foreign policy initiatives and stellar domestic legislative record make his presidency important, despite the missteps.
This is a feel-good story in every way, and Elizabeth Letts keeps the momentum lively, sprinkling in interesting historical tidbits that enrich the drama.
Ruth Scurr’s Napoleon gives intriguing and novel insight into a man about whom we thought everything had already been said.
The Life She Wished to Live is the biography that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has long deserved.
In a must-read book for anyone interested in Abraham Lincoln, a scholar analyzes the president’s most personal notes to himself.
Too often a side character in the story of Henry VIII, Catherine Howard is given new depth and dimension in Russell’s biography of the doomed queen.
In an engrossing new study, Crowther reveals the parallels between Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton—two disparate, talented and troubled poetic geniuses.
Generations of Tomie dePaola’s fans will find hours of delight in The Worlds of Tomie dePaola, a comprehensive study of the author-illustrator’s life and work.
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