Month: January 2026

Journalist Eric Lichtblau says President Trump’s incendiary rhetoric has stoked a “new age of hate.” His book centers on a murder committed by a young neo-Nazi in Orange County, Calif.

Baker & Taylor is one of very few companies that handle book distribution for libraries — getting books from publishers into borrowers hands. But a few months ago, the company abruptly announced it was shutting down.

Tarr’s films were long, dark, and often abstract explorations of everyday life and politics.

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Want to learn something new in the new year? Check out these deep-dive books from 2025 — nonfiction that will lead you to fresh discoveries about big tech, true crime and the ground beneath our feet.

Once a fierce advocate for Trump and his MAGA base, Greene has broken with the president and resigned from Congress. New Yorker writer Charles Bethea discusses Greene’s past — and what may lie ahead.

Our chairs are for sitting on, not for constructing elaborate forts.

In 2013, John was chatting with another patient in the hospital when his words abruptly slurred. That patient recognized something was wrong and called for help, and doctors were able to intervene.

Jacob Soboroff was raised in the Pacific Palisades and reported live from the area as it was devastated by fire in 2025. In Firestorm, Soboroff offers a minute-by-minute account of the catastrophe.

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In The Rest of Our Lives, the narrator drops his daughter off to college — then keeps on driving, leaving his marriage behind. Ben Markovits’ novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Maybe the fellas should pick up “Belch! An Oral History of the Burp.”