On the Road

An excerpt from Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City and Points in Between by Ceilidh Michelle

Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City, and Points in Between by Ceilidh Michelle

The Reading Hordes

An excerpt from The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

<em>The Library: A Fragile History</em> Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen

Writing in the Wings

An excerpt from A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas by Dan O’Brien

A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas Dan O’Brien

The Word—and Weird—of God

An excerpt from A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible by Kristen Swenson

Jayne Ross

Second-Class Students No More

An excerpt from Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University by Theodore D. Segal

Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke University Theodore D. Segal

Filling in the Blanks

An excerpt from How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption About Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong by Douglas B. Downey

How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption About Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong by Douglas B. Downey

A Writer by Nature

An excerpt from World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Home Is Where the HOA Is

An excerpt from The Sprawl by Jason Diamond

The Sprawl by Jason Diamond

Tolerance in a Dark Place

An excerpt from Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis by Ross A. Slotten

Plague Years: A Doctor's Journey Through the AIDS Crisis Ross A. Slotten

A Lifetime in Verse

An excerpt from Land’s End: New and Selected Poems by Gail Mazur

Land’s End: New and Selected Poems by Gail Mazur

Incarcerating the Innocent

An excerpt from Lara Bazelon’s examination of wrongful imprisonment

Lara Bazelon

Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times

A video teaser for Alan Walker’s new biography

Making Oscar Wilde

An excerpt from Michèle Mendelssohn’s account of the writer’s early life and rise to fame

Michèle Mendelssohn

The Bonanza King

An excerpt from Gregory Crouch’s biography of John William Mackay, the 19th-century silver mine magnate

Gregory Crouch

The Beautiful Race

An excerpt from Colin O’Brien’s exploration of Italy’s greatest cycling event

The Seabird’s Cry

An excerpt from Adam Nicolson’s look at the great avian ocean voyagers

How to Die

An excerpt from James Romm’s compilation of Seneca’s writings on death

The Future

An excerpt from Nick Montfort’s exploration of how to create what lies ahead

Voices, Places

An excerpt from David Mason’s new collection of essays on literature and travel

Dopers in Uniform

An excerpt from John Hoberman’s investigation into the hidden world of police on steroids

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