The Richard Avedon Cure for Your Civic Funk
I haven't yet been able to shake the civic funk I always find myself in around election time. The election roller coaster — an undulating set of peaks and valleys marked by anxiety, excitement,...
View ArticleThe Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
Ever since Tina Fey adapted a nonfiction book into the successful Mean Girls, a desperate Hollywood has been hard at play turning serious works of nonfiction into the next goofy romp. While the...
View ArticleThe Blood Telegram
One of the Financial Times picks for best political books of the year, The Blood Telegram is a horrifying and shocking story of the birth of Bangladesh and the terrible part that Nixon and Kissinger...
View ArticleThis Town
At the intersection of politics, media, and money, Leibovich's scathing, funny, and sometimes shocking tell-all offers an insider's glimpse of who's who in our nation's capital. You'll never look at...
View ArticleCountdown (staff pick)
We humans, despite our natural aptitude for mathematics, seem to have an arduous time making sense of concepts that involve very large numbers. Unfortunately, however, abstract notions have absolute...
View ArticleAnd So It Goes: Revisiting Iraq
Reading the newspaper these days feels a little like time traveling. After eight years of war in Iraq and (let's be honest) at least three years of societal amnesia, it's startling to wake up to...
View ArticleAmsterdam
Many Americans have a specific idea of the city of Amsterdam: they think of its front-and-center red light district or legal drugs or, for those less interested in vice, the Anne Frank House. But...
View ArticleBest Nonfiction of 2014
A lot is made of the romance of bookstores. The smell of paper! The joy of discovery! The ancient, cracking leather bindings of books with dated inscriptions! And it's true that bookstores are magical...
View ArticleBeyond the Headlines: How to Visit Cuba
Ever since President Obama's December announcement that the United States is resuming full diplomatic ties with Cuba, the Powell's buyers' office has been suffering from an epidemic of reverse island...
View ArticlePowell’s Q&A: Chris Hedges
Describe your latest book. Wages of Rebellion looks at the nature of rebellion, those who do it, why they do it, and the price they pay for being a rebel. There are interviews with great rebels, from...
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