5 books about Silicon Valley you need to read right now
Want to understand the tech industry? "Brotopia" author Emily Chang shares her favorite picks.
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Biographer Robert Caro on why it’s taking decades to fully capture LBJ
Robert Caro is one of the nation’s preeminent biographers, known for meticulous research and taking his time with a subject. Indeed, he began his massive series "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" in 1977, but its final volume won't be published…
When you turn 29, ‘metamorphosis is not optional,’ this poet says
For poet Hala Alyan, year 29 was an "emotional border" comprised of necessary endings and new beginnings.
An annotated page from ‘There Will Be No Miracles Here’
"'I don’t know' is the most important phrase in this whole book," author Casey Gerald explains.
Casey Gerald's memoir is about attaining and then questioning the American dream.
"There Will Be No Miracles Here" is part memoir and part meditation, tracing Casey Gerald's journey from his childhood in a poor neighborhood in Dallas all the way to Yale and the halls of power.
Becoming your best self means taking care of yourself, and other things Michelle Obama shared during her book tour stop in Washington, D.C.
As politicians spar over immigration, playwright Octavio Solis recounts his childhood as a “skinny brown kid” in El Paso in his memoir “Retablos”. Solis says that though he was in the U.S. legally, Border Patrol would ask him to recite…
"Educated," a memoir by Tara Westover of growing up in a survivalist family in remote Idaho, is our May pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, “Now Read This.”…
