I like anthologies -- probably because I'm such a bookworm -- and my favorites, by far, have always been the ones in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's...
Jodi kantor, a New York Times correspondent, says she got the idea for The Obamas back in 2009, when she interviewed the couple in the…
Jodi Kantor, a New York Times correspondent, says she got the idea for The Obamas back in 2009, when she interviewed the couple in the...
The Obamas, Jodi Kantor's book about the First Family, goes on sale tomorrow, and The White House has already pushed back sharply against it. The...
Hedy Lamarr was a gorgeous and seductive screen siren of the 1930s and '40s, but it turns out she wasn't just another pretty face. In...
Though Whitaker may be familiar to many who followed his trajectories at Newsweek and CNN, this book is less about the journalist's storied career than…
After the spate of obituaries, is there anything left to learn about the man who turned personal computing into a pleasure and then a…
Some of the most fascinating tidbits in Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs bio are about the Apple founder's bizarre eating habits: Carrot and apple fasts Jobs was affected...
Walter Isaacson's new biography of Steve Jobs is full of the late Apple visionary's tart assessments of people he met over the years: Mick Jagger "I think...
After the spate of obituaries and articles, is there anything left to learn about the man who turned personal computing into a pleasure -- and...
Walter Isaacson says, in his bio, that Jobs was working on a couple of big ideas the last few months of his life: -- A better...
''Make the Bread, Buy the Butter'' by the onetime EW critic is equal parts cookbook, DIY how-to, and urban homesteading tale
My attention was caught this morning by a tweet from Neil Gaiman: "Really? Barnes and Noble will no longer sell Sandman or Watchmen?" It turns...
What does it say about me that I used to torture my little brother by dangling his teddy bear out the car window? He would…
You may recall what happened when investigative reporter Joe McGinniss, under contract to write a book about Sarah Palin, rented the house next to hers…
By now you've probably read about Jackie calling Indira Gandhi "a real prune," or saying, "I get all my opinions from my husband," as well...
Here, for the first time, is Scholastic's cover (front and back) for The Hunger Games Collector's Edition. That's ordinarily the kind of thing that wouldn't...
Before picking up Northwest Corner , I had whipped through four adrenaline-fueled, plot-driven thrillers in as many days. John Burnham Schwartz's follow-up to his masterful…
''Come on, little man, your mommy's traveling. I want you to hold her hand,'' the doctor says to terrified 9-year-old Abdul as he stands at…
I picked up Jaycee Dugard’s A Stolen Life with real reluctance -- I’m a parent, and the thought that something like this happens to children...