The writer Dan Burt discusses renouncing his U.S. citizenship, his law and writing career, and how he adjusted to Cambridge and English society from South Philly.
Set on present day Staten Island Eddie Joyce's 'Small Mercies' traces the effect of 9/11 on the families of people living in “the servants’ quarters of New York."
Biographer Randy Boyagoda paints Richard John Neuhaus as an unusually ambitious and politically engaged priest as public intellectual—but is his narrative too tidy?
In the short run, Obama simply has to win enough votes for his Iran deal. For the long run, he has to persuade Americans that diplomacy is a safer path than war.
Amusing and engaging, Barney Frank's stories (from sixteen terms in Congress) tell what kinds of “inside politicking” informed the presidencies of LBJ through Obama.
Edward Hopper’s paintings created a New York that conformed to the contours of his own life. His lonely characters strike a familiar chord for any city dweller.
