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On the brink of the inauguration, historians reflect on America's trajectory
As Inauguration Day approaches, we ask historians who’ve written books about America’s past reflect on America’s future. Does this moment have a parallel, or are we truly in unprecedented times?
Why some college students aren’t reading books
Last fall, The Atlantic triggered a national conversation about students and reading when they published an article about elite college students who don’t read books. On this week’s Big Books and Bold Ideas, host Kerri Miller talk with writers who’ve also taught college literature classes about what they are seeing.
Christopher Bollen unleashes ‘Havoc’ with his new thriller
Is 81-year-old Maggie Burkhardt on a mission or mercy? Or is her meddling a sign of something more sinister? And what happens when she meets her match in the the form of a demented eight-year-old boy? Christopher Bollen’s deliciously tense “Havoc” lets it all unspool.
A bereaved single father navigates a new path forward in ‘I Will Do Better’
Charles Bock’s achingly honest new memoir, “I Will Do Better,” begins on his daughter’s third birthday — the same day he is planning his wife’s funeral.
In her new book, journalist Brigid Schulte asks what if work wasn’t such a grind?
In her new book, “Over Work,” journalist Brigid Schulte examines why we work the way we do and how a broken system could be reformed to make work more productive, autonomous and meaningful.
The gut's curious history
Historian Elsa Richardson’s new book, “Rumbles,” takes us on a fascinating tour of the gut’s medical and cultural past.
Dr. Marty Makary on medicine's blind spots
Dr. Marty Makary says data misinterpretation and conventional thinking is not serving us well — and he wants to change that. His new book, “Blind Spots,” details when medicine got it wrong and then resisted making it right.