He wrote extensively about the design of buildings and bridges and how they failed. He also examined the history of commonplace objects like the pencil.
In a wide-ranging new book, the scholar Jackson Lears locates a “countercultural” hunger for vigor and spontaneity on the trading floor, the dance floor and beyond.
Six opinionated writers debate — and define — the state of L.G.B.T.Q. writing in order to make a list of the most essential works of fiction, poetry and drama right now.
“Old illustrated ones are critical for research,” says the author and spy novelist, four of whose early novels are being reissued this month. “You’d be amazed how often roads move and names change.”
Two new books offer harsh assessments of private equity firms that specializes in buying up companies only to saddle them with debt and squeeze them for profits.
The protagonist of K. Patrick’s “Mrs. S,” a boarding school worker questioning her gender expression, falls into a torrid affair with the headmaster’s wife.
In Haley Jakobson’s compassionate debut novel, “Old Enough,” a college sophomore must navigate her first steps into young adulthood while unpacking the trauma of past abuse.