“Capote’s Women,” by Laurence Leamer, recounts the author’s intimate friendships with some of midcentury America’s most glamorous women — and what happened when he decided to depict them in his fiction.
“There’s a very small group of authors whose books I won’t read because the mind I sense behind them disturbs me. (In all fairness, mine disturbs a few people, too.)”
In his new book, Matthew Stewart explores what he calls a “new aristocracy,” the one-tenth of Americans who are reaping the benefits of an unfair economy.
In his new book, “American Comics,” Jeremy Dauber starts in the 19th century before making his way from Superman to “Maus” to offer a grand narrative of comics in America.