In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, My Paper Chase, Harold Evans recounts how The Sunday Times unmasked Kim Philby, the most notorious spy of the Cold War.
Gail Collins' new book tells the story of American women since the 1950s, writes Christine Stansell—and shows that the depressing mess left when an old order crumbles is still preferable to the tidiness of a once-immovable status quo.
A look at great reads from the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. This week: a great forgotten British poet, Afghanistan’s natural state, and a new selection of Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
With Obámanos, his exuberant new collection chronicling the rise of the president, The New Yorker's witty political sage celebrates the good guys finally winning.
New revelations in Germany have shattered the wall’s official story. A secret meeting and carefully planned government plot preceded the "spontaneous" protest 20 years ago. By Tim Mohr.
The Daily Beast has obtained the speeches Sarah Palin planned to deliver on Election Night 2008—win or lose. Read the words the McCain camp didn’t want her to say.
New revelations in Germany have shattered the wall’s official story. A secret meeting and carefully planned government plot preceded the "spontaneous" protest 20 years ago. By Tim Mohr.
In an exclusive excerpt from David Plouffe’s memoir, The Audacity to Win, the Obama campaign aide recounts how his team handled the candidate’s infamous comments about guns and religion—and how Obama took the blame.
Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer talks to Jane Ciabattari about his new nonfiction book, the horrors of factory farming, deciding what to feed his son, and why killing animals is just wrong.
From Bill O’Reilly to Bob Barker, the year's 15 bestselling memoirs of movie stars, TV personalities, and the rich and famous. Rankings provided by Nielsen BookScan.
As the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaches, journalist Michael Meyer looks back at the years he spent astride it. An exclusive excerpt from The Year the World Changed.
Taylor Antrim on why Chuck Klosterman’s latest book, Eating the Dinosaur, shows him as pop-culture obsessed as always and wonders if his shtick still works.
The hysteria over the swine-flu vaccine—and not just the virus itself—is a public-health disaster and the latest example of America’s irrational thinking, says Michael Specter.
John Marshall talks to Ed Viesturs, the first American to reach the summit of all 14 of the world’s highest peaks, about how he nearly died on K2 and his advice to other climbers.
The author is at the height of his powers in his latest novel, The Humbling. In a rare interview, he sits down with Tina Brown at The Beast Bar to talk about writing, mortality, and why he thinks the novel is a dying form.
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