Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess
By Ben Mezrich
The game’s fighters extend far beyond queens and rooks.
Behold the Bird in Flight
By Terri Lewis
A young girl’s impetuous decision alters the course of her life.
A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.
The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
By Griffin Dunne
An affecting, poignant recollection of life among the Hollywood literati.
The Wounded World
By Chad L. Williams
An outstanding account of the eminent intellectual’s literary Waterloo.
The Art Thief
By Michael Finkel
What happens when an aesthete turns fanatic?
Stress Test: A Memoir
By Kay White Drew
It wasn’t easy being a female med student in the 1970s.
What an astute author from the past might say about our murky present.
Lost & Found
By Nyah Hardmon
Finding myself in Looking for Alaska.
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation
By Hugh Warwick
Is there a better way for us animals to coexist?
An occasional series in which writers speak for themselves.
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