Books Features
By Ross Simonini
Must everything be turned into pop cultural slogans? the poet asks in his new collection.
By Wendy Smith
Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney were fun-loving souls who married only to die soon after.
By Sarah Weinman
Carol Goodman's "Arcadia Falls" finds something sinister behind a school's idyllic setting.
By Susan Salter Reynolds
In his media manifesto, a fed-up author makes a case for reality.
By Susan Salter Reynolds
"My American pathology trilogy," Greg Critser calls it: "Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World" (2003), "Generation...
Gina McIntyre and Nick Owchar
It's hard enough leading a nation: In two new novels, Lincoln and Queen Victoria get enmeshed in ghoulish, supernatural intrigue.
By Tim Rutten
When I was a boy, my father took me to see my first live professional basketball game downtown at the Sports Arena.
By Laura Collins-Hughes
In May 2007, deep into her time as a stealth member of Jerry Falwell's Lynchburg, Va., congregation, Gina Welch had become unsettled about...
By Jedediah Berry
What happens when a man finds he has devil horns on his forehead -- and a knack for inspiring bad behavior in the people around him.
By Carolyn Kellogg
Revolutions in music -- chronicling the riot grrrl movement and the musical and cultural revolutions in Rio de Janeiro's favelas.
By Peter Schrag
The educational conservative decries the 'hijacking' of testing, accountability and markets.
By Susan Salter Reynolds
His new collection of essays, 'Silk Parachute,' contains pieces of his own history for a change.