The Hollywood Tell-All

After the credits roll, everybody loves to gossip.

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True Love Stories

Love is real.

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The Super Bowl

Game day reading.

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Commanders

American Generals in an era of change

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Year of the Dragon

Readings that explore China in an era of change.

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The Civil Rights Movement

Remembering and celebrating voices raised in protest.

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The Olympians

Reading from Athena to Zeus.

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Predictions

Dreamers of the world to come, and their (not always accurate) visions of tomorrow.

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Winter

Season's readings.

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King Arthur

Journeys back to the Round Table in history, poetry, and fantasy.

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Picturing Nature

See the world.

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Seriously Trivial

For the lover of lists, charts, and compendia of facts.

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Ruling Women

Five biographies of dynamic -- sometimes despotic -- female leaders.

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Holiday Feasts

New and time-tested guides to loading the family table with seasonal riches.

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Ernest Hemingway

Readings that explore and celebrate the writer's career, paired with selections from his best work.

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Dogs

Books that celebrate a special relationship.

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Hell

Infernally good reading.

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Monologists

Voices in the dark.

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Pasta

The shapely pleasures of a favorite food.

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Astronomy

Heavenly reading for backyard stargazers and armchair astronauts.

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Digital War

Cryptographers, hackers, and combat by virus: reports from the next front.

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Dangerous Minds

Revolutionaries, geniuses, and master manipulators of history.

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Fashion

Reading with style.

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Celebrating Steig

It's hard to pick just five of William Steig's enchanting books, but that didn't stop us from trying.

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Tennis

The U.S. Open is this week, so we decided to offer up some literary power serves.

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Spain

Works to trace the grandeur of a nation's history.

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Video Games

History, myths, and stories of the digital playground.

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Sailing

Voyages, stories, and adventures at sea.

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Getaway Tales

Books that put the "beach" in beach read.

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Mountaineering

Exhilaration, heroics, death and laughter atop the world's tallest peaks.

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May 18: Parade, the "first modern ballet," premiered in Paris on this day in 1917. The production was a collaboration of some of modernism's most famous -- music by Erik Satie, scenario by Jean Cocteau, costumes by Picasso,…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
Minotaur

This newly reissued Cold War classic profiles an Israeli spy obsessed with an English girl half his age, and his attempts to win her love without ever revealing his true identity.

The Innocence Game

Three Chicago journalism students attend an “innocence” seminar that will teach them how to release the wrongfully accused from prison. But as innocents are jailed, a killer roams free, and the students are next on the hit list.

Little Green

Walter Mosley's suave detective Easy Rawlins is back among the living after a literal cliffhanger of a car crash, in pursuit of a  LSD-addled boxer roaming Los Angeles, 1967.