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"Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life" by Ellen Forney

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In 'Rock Steady,' Ellen Forney Combines Mental Health Advice, Artistry and Wit

7:00am May 17, 2018

by Etelka Lehoczky

Following up on her instant-classic Marbles — about her experiences with bipolar disorder — cartoonist Forney lays out her coping strategies in warm, deftly-rendered and densely informative style.

Jesse Owens crosses the line to win the 100-meter dash, one of four gold medals he won at the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. The new book Upon Further Review imagines 31 counterfactual scenarios in sport, including the possibility of the United States boy

Blimps Full Of Money And 30 Other Sports Hypotheticals In 'Upon Further Review'

4:09pm May 16, 2018

by Rachel Martin

Mike Pesca's new book imagines 31 counterfactual "what ifs" in sports, from home runs taken off the board to a boycott of the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany.

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'A Shout In The Ruins' Probes The Lasting Infections Of War And Slavery

7:00am May 16, 2018

by Michael Schaub

Kevin Powers' bleak, stunning new book is set in both the 1950s and the Civil War era. It's an intricately plotted look at the ways violence can shape a nation in ways that may not be recoverable.

Why Teens Should Understand Their Own Brains (And Why Their Teachers Should, Too!)

4:01pm May 15, 2018

by Elissa Nadworny

Human brains are still developing throughout our teenage and early adult years. Knowing more about the way they work can teach us about how schools can work, too.

Novelist and journalist Tom Wolfe believed that techniques for fiction and nonfiction should be interchangeable. "The things that work in nonfiction would work in fiction, and vice versa," he said.

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Tom Wolfe, Best-Selling Author And Genre-Breaking Journalist, Dies At 88

2:32pm May 15, 2018

by Tom Vitale

The author of The Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff used to give himself a quota of 10 triple-spaced pages per day. He also experimented with literary techniques in his nonfiction.

Michael Pollan is out with a new book about the science behind psychedelics.

'Reluctant Psychonaut' Michael Pollan Embraces The 'New Science' Of Psychedelics

1:17pm May 15, 2018

by Terry Gross

Author Michael Pollan, who experimented with mushrooms, LSD and other psychedelics while researching his latest book, says: "I had an experience that was by turns frightening and ecstatic and weird."

Tom Wolfe, Author Of 'Bonfire Of The Vanities,' Dies At 88

12:38pm May 15, 2018

by Lynn Neary

Best-selling author Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of what came to be called "the new journalism," died at a hospital in New York.

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'Cult X' Asks How Easily You — Yes, You — Might Be Taken In

10:00am May 15, 2018

by Bethanne Patrick

Some of the sex scenes in Fuminori Nakamura's new novel Cult X will disturb you — but that's beside the point, because the book has much more disturbing things to say about groupthink and free will.

A View of the Empire at Sunset, by Caryl Phillips

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'Empire At Sunset' Provides A Mesmerizing View Of Jean Rhys

7:00am May 15, 2018

by Heller McAlpin

Caryl Phillips' new novel, set in the waning years of the British Empire, follows the perpetually alienated Rhys from her birthplace in the West Indies to England and then the Continent.

An Illustrated Memoir Of The War In Syria

5:09pm May 14, 2018

The humanitarian and military crisis in Syria can be hard to see clearly. But Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple have another way.