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WHY PEACOCKS?An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World’s Most Magnificent BirdBy Sean FlynnImmanuel Kant wrote that only humans are capable of appreciating beauty — a claim refuted soundly by the existence of the peacock.Before Charles Darwin, Westerners saw...

AMAZON UNBOUNDJeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global EmpireBy Brad StoneAfter I finished “Amazon Unbound,” I glanced at the sleek black Amazon Echo cylinder sitting on my kitchen counter, right next to a few cans of dog food...

SUPER SOUL What’s it like to write a book with Oprah Winfrey? Is she the kind of collaborator we all remember from group projects in high school — the deadbeat who goes dark until the bulk of the work...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — For her first book, “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime,” the historian Elizabeth Hinton spent years digging through government archives, piecing together how bipartisan tough-on-crime federal legislation had funded an expansion...

CHAPTER ONEAnyone Can Be a WriterJacob Finch Bonner, the once promising author of the “New & Noteworthy” (The New York Times Book Review) novel The Invention of Wonder, let himself into the office he’d been assigned on the second...

About halfway through “Breathe,” a new musical created by the best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult and the veteran playwright Timothy Allen McDonald, a fed-up, locked-down father of three sums up the challenges of the pandemic in a two-word refrain: “It’s...

At first, Jake ignores a string of increasingly threatening dispatches. But then “Talented Tom” (as the harasser calls himself, evoking “The Talented Mr. Ripley”) takes to Twitter, contacts Jake’s publisher and sends a letter to his home. By this...

What book might people be surprised to find on your shelves?“Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of American Consensus.” In order to be an effective leader, I work hard to understand the theories, beliefs and dreams of...

This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. There’s no better time to get into manga than now. Titles like My Hero Academia dominate the bestseller charts. New series launch every...