Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid by Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt
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Are iPhones, iPads, GPS, and the Internet exacerbating negatives and simultaneously eroding the positives?
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Our Man by George Packer
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The fact that this book captures the man as no book is ever likely to do again is an accomplishment and also a precaution.
Read MoreAmerican Eagle: A Visual History of Our National Emblem by Preston Cook
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Dedicated to the mage that has been synonymous with the United States since before the United States formally existed.
Read MoreGropius: The Man Who Built the Bauhaus by Fiona McCarthy
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McCarthy is a wonderfully sympathetic biographer, and her reading and research in these pages is vast.
Read MoreChaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner
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Turner reminds her readers that the father of English literature was a traveling man.
Read MoreThe Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
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Whitehead constantly plays off optimistic idealism against cynical trickery.
Read MoreThe War for Gaul translated by James O'Donnell
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A fluid, confessional thing unlike any other English-language Caesar.
Read MoreCapitalism in America by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge
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A decent summary of capitalism in America with brief but useful biographies of major figures.
Read MoreThe Hill to Die On by Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer
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Even the cynical reader can take from this book the sense that those with the greatest power in Congress still have a coherent set of values.
Read MoreDown from the Mountain by Bryce Andrews
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There will be more books like Down from the Mountain as more bears hit the immovable object of the American farming industry.
Read MoreEric Hobsbawm: A Life in History by Richard J. Evans
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An 800-page biography of a bestselling historian written by another bestselling historian.
Read MoreDelta-v by Daniel Suarez
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Delta-V never falters because it never doubts its own storytelling virtue.
Read MoreThe Pandemic Century by Mark Honigsbaum
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The book is unfailingly fascinating reading, despite its appalling subject matter, with vividly drawn portraits of many of the people at the front lines.
Read MoreRevolutionary by Robert L. O'Connell
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Readers will need to assess the balance between an insightful overview of the birth of the United States alongside the usual starry-eyed heroic poem about Washington himself.
Read MoreWhite by Bret Easton Ellis
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If Ellis is obsessed with anything as a craftsman, it’s voice.
Read MoreMetropolis by Phillip Kerr
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In Metropolis, we meet the gimlet-eyed gumshoe with a penchant for wiseass humor in the summer of 1928.
Read MoreHenrik Ibsen: The Man & the Mask By Ivo De Figueiredo
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Written with a surprisingly light tempo and an unerring instinct for, oddly enough, zingers.
Read MoreThe Damascus Road by Jay Parini
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A squarely straight-laced affair, a prosier elaboration of the Epistles, an Act Two of the Apostles.
Read MoreLeft To Their Own Devices by Julie M. Albright
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Young digital natives deserve better than this hyperventilating wad of pseudoscience.
Read MoreNicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist by Elizabeth Goldring
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A comprehensive and almost certainly definitive life of Hilliard and a richly involving portrait of his time.
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