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God is Not Great:
How Religion Poisons Everything

Christopher Hitchens

“America’s foremost literary pugilist” (Village Voice) offers an elegantly argued case against all religions.

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The Poisoning of Beverly Hills High School

Joy Horowitz

An unsettling and timely investigation into the ties between Beverly Hills, its oil wells, and a local cancer cluster. A…

An Evening with Graphic Designer Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd

Kidd’s book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf (where he has worked since 1986) have helped spawn a revolution in…

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

Harvard sociologist and MacArthur Prize awardee Matthew Desmond tells the story of eight families living on the edge in the…

The Constitution and the Presidency

Erwin Chemerinsky

The first weeks of the Trump presidency have raised numerous constitutional issues and a Supreme Court appointment. What are these…

Paul Beatty on the words that kept him writing

Paul Beatty

Beatty — the first American novelist to win the coveted Man Booker Award — is a comic genius at the…

An Evening with George Saunders

George Saunders

In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Lincoln in…

This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression

Daphne Merkin

Taking from essays on depression she has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, Daphne Merkin’s…

Shakespeare in Today’s America

James Shapiro and Lisa Wolpe

Who gets to see Shakespeare and act in his plays?  Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s extraordinary legacy, Lisa Wolpe…

The Sellout: A Novel

Paul Beatty

Dickens, an “agrarian ghetto,” is the fictional Los Angeles hood at the center of Paul Beatty’s scathingly satirical novel, The…