Meet the first two African American women in the White House press corps Excerpts from Alice Dunnigan's Alone atop the Hill and James McGrath Morris' Eye on the Struggle about Ethel Payne February 10, 2015 By The Editors
Contrarian critic January 17, 2014 By Edirin Oputu Armond White’s expulsion from the New York Film Critics Circle is unfortunate, but not unexpected
The secret whistleblowers January 9, 2014 By Edirin Oputu The book The Burglary, released Wednesday, reveals how a group of activists exposed the secrets of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI
Care and feeding of the press January 2, 2014 By Julia M. Klein Roosevelt did it, Taft did not, and that made all the difference
Newtown isn’t the book the tragedy deserves December 16, 2013 By Kira Goldenberg A superficial book recounting the school shooting was pegged to its one-year anniversary
Giving a baron too big a pass November 26, 2013 By Dave Marash Murdoch’s World avoids implicating Rupert Murdoch for his lawbreaking
Truth is relative November 19, 2013 By Edirin Oputu The Fifth Estate tries to tell the story of WikiLeaks, but can’t make up its mind
Human nature November 1, 2013 By Tom Vanderbilt Do conflicting desires prevent us from building happy cities
Games people play November 1, 2013 By Leigh Alexander Most of what we think we know about video games is wrong
Brief encounters November 1, 2013 By James Boylan Short reviews of Informing the News and Celebrity Politics
When ‘having it all’ misses the point September 17, 2013 By Kira Goldenberg A new book by the president of Barnard College argues that the goal of feminism was never to make women’s lives untenable
The new black migration September 10, 2013 By Dean Starkman Laura Gottesdiener’s book details the continuing wreckage of the mortgage crisis
Shortchanged September 10, 2013 By Trevor Quirk Roy Peter Clark’s book on writing short avoids the consequences
Piano man September 3, 2013 By Kira Goldenberg In Guardian Editor in Chief Alan Rusbridger’s new book, he struggles to practice as the news cycle quickens
