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In his new book There Was Nothing You Could Do: “Born In The USA” And The End Of The Heartland, Steven Hyden writes about Bruce Springsteen’s monumental 1984 record as...

When Dick Goodwin reached his 80s, he asked his wife – historian Doris Kearns Goodwin – to finally open and sift through the hundreds of boxes he'd kept from his...

Chigozie Obioma has made a career of writing, and a very successful one: He has published two novels, both Booker Prize finalists, and has earned about a dozen other awards.But...

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Greg Iles, Southern Man(William Morrow) “This is a genuinely terrifying book because of its plausibility—Iles perfectly...

A number of showbands from Offaly feature in a new publication called From Tango to Twist. The book is an almanac of 20th century Irish dance-bands and showbands. There is...

In 1637, a Londoner named Mabel Gray lost her spoons. After looking everywhere, she set off to consult a wizard. That wizard directed her to a second, who sent her...

MISS MAY DOES NOT EXIST: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius, by Carrie CourogenNichols and May, the comedy team, were together from 1957 until 1961. They...

It was not exactly urgent to get the rug, but the larger question the rug had to answer was urgent enough. That’s why, on a bright afternoon at the end...