Melissa Holbrook Pierson

The author of four works of nonfiction, including The Place You Love Is Gone and The Perfect Vehicle, Melissa Holbrook Pierson has written on books and film for numerous publications.

The Scottish Play

Michael Fassbender Tackles Macbeth

Move over, Steve Jobs—Fassbender delivers a brutally powerful performance as Shakespeare’s bloodthirsty tyrant.

Unguarded

Chrissie Hynde's Rich and Ragged Memoir

Her recent “blame the victim” rape comments ignited a furor. Be assured that the rest of her book is just as heedless, volatile, and—yes—engaging: Pure Chrissie Hynde, in other words.

Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Getting Personal

Oliver Sacks’s Love Affair With Hogs

The gifted author/physician uses his passion for motorcycles to jump-start his memoir, and the resulting tale is an unforgettably passionate, joyous journey.

Melissa Holbrook Pierson

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Changeling

Geoff Dyer at Sea: Unmoored, on Target

The usually peerless, occasionally annoying, and always peripatetic author distills his latest book out of time spent aboard a US Navy aircraft carrier.

Melissa Holbrook Pierson

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All Creatures Great and Small

Animal Planet

Why do we use enormous resources to save some species and let others die? Melissa Holbrook Pierson on the strange ways of humans.

Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Michael Fassbender Tackles Macbeth

Chrissie Hynde's Rich and Ragged Memoir

Oliver Sacks’s Love Affair With Hogs

Geoff Dyer at Sea: Unmoored, on Target

Animal Planet

Do Not Get Married!