Sean Wilentz’s unconventional biography of Bob Dylan.

The author of Reclaimed Powers looks back, and ahead.

The question of authenticity has occupied some of the subtlest minds of the last century. Andrew Potter thinks the whole effort is a hoax.

Albert Camus and George Orwell had much in common, not least an early death and the elastic use of their literary legacies.

A new two-volume Marine Corps history of the Iraq War “surge” is revolutionary: It actually listens to what Iraqis have to say.

Marshall McLuhan once told us that “the medium is the message.” Now the medium is rewiring the human brain.

G.K. Chesterton didn’t fall for the lure of the “eugenists” in his day; nor should we in ours.

Edward Luttwak’s The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
eruditely makes the case that such a thing actually existed.

A new life of Dr. Seuss, American icon.

The amazing dumb luck of a Victorian romantic gone native.