Everything You Like About Football Is Wrong
As the season kicks off a former fan takes sides against the NFL and how most Americans spend their Sundays
Book Review: 'The Last Magazine' by Michael Hastings
A star reporter's posthumous novel charts the decline of print journalism from the vantage point of a newsweekly that may seem familiar
'A Replacement Life' Is Both Tender and Powerful
The novel is like a story that a grandparent might tell you at the dinner table—one of those stories that the young may ignore only to regret their impatience later
Beneath the Hat
Diane Keaton shows style and substance in her new memoir, name-checking a few men along the way
Scratching Out a Living
In a series of letters to a trusted mentor, James Agee removed the romance from writing
1776 Was More Than the Year the Colonies Broke Free
The Revolutionary War gets all the attention, but outside of the colonies were other upheavals, a new book says
Birdman of Razzmatazz
A rising star in ornithology sheds some light, but not feathers, on his fascination with our feathered friends
Book Review: This Book Is Not Special, Either
David McCullough Jr. drains an exciting commencement speech of verve
Rich Food, or the Day Michael Rockefeller Met the Cannibals
Writer Carl Hoffman follows 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller into the jungle in 1961, where he vanished, and Hoffman argues, was eaten
The Final Final Word
In a fitting subject for his last book, Peter Matthiessen tackled the Holocaust
Max Brooks's Graphic Novel 'The Harlem Hellfighters' Tells the Story of a Black Regiment in World War I
Brooks, best known for zombie books like World War Z, applies much of the same blood lust and horror to the battlefield in World War I
Bludgeoned by a Curmudgeon
According to Charles Murray, the biggest thing holding back America's next generation of professionals is their coddled upbringing