Chris Matthews has always been a storyteller at heart. Long before he became a fixture in American living rooms as the spirited, rapid-fire host of…
Books
Chris Matthews’s Lessons from Bobby Makes the Case for Robert Kennedy Now
Chris Matthews has returned to the Kennedy well once more, this time with a sleek, urgent volume arguing that Robert F. Kennedy still offers something…
A Life Woven in Words: Atwood’s Memoir Confronts Time, Art and Loss
Margaret Atwood’s memoir is less a tidy self-portrait and more a sprawling mosaic of memory, identity and creative reckoning. In this expansive work she invites…
Salman Rushdie’s New Fiction Marks a Return from the Edge
The name Salman Rushdie has become synonymous with imaginative risk and personal survival, and this month he returns to the realm of pure fiction with…
Stephen King Tops Banned-Books Lists as Classics Also Face Censorship Surge
Stephen King is currently the most frequently challenged author in U.S. schools and libraries, according to multiple recent reports, with more of his titles removed…
Stephen King Tops List of Most Banned Authors in U.S. Libraries
Stephen King’s name now appears more often than any other on book-ban rosters across public and school libraries in the United States. His works—ranging from…
Alchemised Turns Fan Legacy into Dark Fantasy Debut
The novel Alchemised by SenLinYu is shaping up to be one of the most buzzed-about fantasy releases of the year. What began as a powerful,…
Jennette McCurdy Trades Memoir Mayhem for Fiction With Debut Novel Half His Age
Meet Jennette McCurdy—the former Nickelodeon firecracker turned memoirist—now morphing into fiction’s next big thing with the announcement of her debut novel, Half His Age. And…
The Sisters: A Scandalous Tale Worthy of Its Own Spotlight
Few families in the last century have fascinated readers and historians quite like the Mitfords. Brilliant, brazen, contradictory, and often outrageous, the sisters at the…
Keeley Hazell Turns the Page: Actress Releases a Memoir of Reinvention
Keeley Hazell’s memoir, Everyone’s Seen My Tits: Stories and Reflections from an Unlikely Feminist, is more than a collection of personal essays—it’s an act of…