“So wildly wrong that it defies rational analysis,” ranks among the toughest reviews an author can receive—particularly if it comes from a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist in response to your… Read more »

Topics discussed: Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman, Barnes & Noble, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Bryan Burrough, Barbarians at the Gate, RJR Nabisco, Powerhouse Arena, Choire Sicha, William Giraldi, Neely Tucker, Alice… Read more »

Whenever a book proves timely, we tend to think of that timeliness as accidental—a matter of circumstance. Earlier this month, when the nation first learned Rachel Dolezal’s name, a number… Read more »

Last week, the Pulitzer Prize Board announced the winners of the 2015 prizes. The fiction award went to Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See—which was hailed in these… Read more »