"The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog" is a powerful testament to how the brain can heal, through loving relationships, from even the most extreme cases of trauma.
As a lawsuit challenges the slashing of the Bears Ears Monument, Native Americans point to the area's spiritual and cultural significance.
"My ideology has come into contact with reality," conservative Max Boot writes in his new book, "and reality is winning."
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum writes, "Monarchs feed on fear from below. Fear of the monarch's punishment ensures compliance. And fear of outside threats ensures voluntary servitude."
Lindsay Wong's debut memoir, "The Woo-Woo," is a hilarious and harrowing account of her childhood in a family with severe mental illness.
Despite an embargo on his archive, a new biography examines how events between the Kennedy assassination and Nixon's resignation pushed the writer toward his most trenchant work.
Based on years of immersive reporting, Eliza Griswold’s “Amity and Prosperity” follows the legal battle that ensued when a single frack site began to affect three neighboring families.
This exploration of the tech industry "strings lights around the absurdities of the gig economy and the belief in Everyman entrepreneurial capacity."
Two fiery new books argue that female anger is an important catalytic force for activism, a demand for accountability and a vital form of communication.
Ron Chernow's biography, now in paperback, makes it clear: If Grant’s image doesn’t belong on Mount Rushmore, it should at least be acknowledged that if not for him, Lincoln’s might not be there.
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