The nature of reading is private, but part of the thrill of reading a magazine is the knowledge that others are reading the same material at roughly the same time.

'Hothouse,' by Boris Kachka

Michael Novak’s autobiography is another remarkable American success story.

It is the 1941 baseball season and Joe DiMaggio is not content Fans idolize him He enjoys a record-breaking hitting streak His wife gives birth to a son Yet DiMaggio is moody and saturnine besieged by guilt that he is not the hero his fans expect him to be...

I first discovered Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990 when I was in Peru to see a friend climb Machu Picchu and write an article That was the time when Vargas Llosa the novelist was running for president of Peru The guerilla movement Shining Path was terrorizing the countryside and the economy was fal

Cesar Chavez is widely considered a great American hero. But 'From the Jaws of Victory' by Matt Garcia explores some of the activist's flaws not often acknowledged by those who know only the legend.