Books

Towards the end of her clearsighted and passionate exploration of the craft of memoir writing, author Lily Dunn…

Ross E. Lockhart Humans play games. It’s one of our defining features. This is the thesis of Johan…

This flaw is also present in directives for authenticity like Matthew McConaughey’s “Just Because,” a whirlwind of unobjectionable…

David Mark, the mastermind behind the bestselling DS Aector McAvoy series, initially created the book club as a…

Shearer’s research, we discover, included tour time with British metal warriors Saxon. It was Guest, in a Greenwich…

Reading is one of my favorite hobbies. I can easily burn through three or four books each month,…

Rufous, a modern-day cartographer in his 40s, is losing his memory. Contending with the unreliability of his own…

The first book in Maggie Gates’ ‘Griffith Brothers’ series, ‘Dust Storm,’ is coming to a bookstore near you.…

Much like how any book can be a beach read if you try hard enough, any book can…

As for pace, “Shadow Ticket” reads like one of its subplots, about the Trans-Trianon 2000, a two-thousand-kilometre motorcycle…

This article appears in the October 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The World’s Worst Bet: How…

NEED TO KNOW Riley Keough is releasing a paperback edition of late mom Lisa Marie Presley’s memoir From…

Exploring the radical craft of memoir