Reading Around

What does it take for someone to kill?  That question is front and center in Karin Slaughter’s tense mystery, False Witness.  [...]

For more than 40 years, Fern Schumer Chapman had nearly no relationship with her only brother. This estrangement not only was hurtful, but [...]

“This book will not leave you unchanged.” A rather bold statement from a new memoir since the true-life genre has exploded over the [...]

A low roar magnifies, escalatesin leaps swirls and flipsarriving firstwings aligned.Dancing in precise formationsperfectly spaced on a [...]

The men in Taryn Moore’s life never fail to let her down. First, there’s her father who left when she was a small child. Then there’s [...]

We live our lives translating. What are interactions between two human beings, even within the same language, if not constant acts of [...]

Tune in to The Smithsonian Associates discussion of the book July 15 [...]

The first great beach read of the summer has arrived – Kate White’s The Fiancée. The former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan [...]