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The Journalist and the Billionaire
Walter Isaacson is a man with a golden rolodex, impeccable Establishment credentials, and world-class schmoozing skills. Now he has written a biography of Elon Musk, who despises all those things.
ABSENCE AFRICAINE
A Prix Goncourt-winning novel about a quest to unearth a literary legend.
HOT AND BOTHERED
James Ellroy finally takes on Marilyn Monroe.
OFF THE STREET
A journey from homelessness to a room of one's of one's own in New York City.
GLOW IN THE DARK
What Kate DiCamillo understands about childhood.
THE BELIEVER
How the Times columnist Ross Douthat translates faith to the secular world.
THE CATALYST
Betty Friedan and the movement that outgrew her.
EUROTRIP
Romy's exuberant solo début.
THE X-MAN
How Elon Musk became a superhero and then a supervillain.
OLD MEN AND SEA
Plot Summary and Study Guide
Dangerous Designs
Gene editing gives us transformative powers. But should we use them?
You've Been Served
One lawyer's mission to find the lies in what we eat.
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
Liszt defined musical glamour. But pianists now see substance behind the spectacle.
THE GREAT INDOORS
How Matthew Wong turned loneliness into a landscape.
HOLY MATRIMONY
George Eliot’s secular sacraments.
SIBERIAN WOOD
The thing about horseradish vodka is that it makes you forget that you’re drinking vodka.
TALK TO ME
Can artificial intelligence allow us to speak to another species?
CLIMATE-CHANGE MYTHS
SHOUTS & MURMURS
HIGHER CALLING
Scammers with ambition in “Telemarketers” and “BS High.”
THE COUP
In Ariel Dorfman’s new novel, a billionaire has a scheme to save the planet.
Animal Magnetism
Disney takes the high road to profit.
FARM TO FABLE
George Orwell's animal allegory.
BARK
Do dogs have history?
THE ELEPHANT VANISHES HARUKI MURAKAMI
When the elephant disappeared from our town's elephant house, I read about it in the newspaper. My alarm clock woke me that day, as always, at six thirteen.
BUTTERFLIES
The childhood of a lepidopterist.
THE SQUID HUNTER
Can Steve O'Shea capture the sea's most elusive creature?
BUZZED
To learn more about the biochemistry of addiction, scientists in Australia dropped liquefied freebase cocaine on bees' backs, so it entered the circulatory system and brain.
HARBORING RATS
Vermin of the waterfront and beyond.
LITTLE WING
When homing pigeons leave home.
PETS ALLOWED
Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn't be?