How a hippie helped eradicate smallpox
Larry Brilliant, a world-renowned physician, epidemiologist and public-health crusader, tells his story
book reviews
Charles Bronfman on the burdens of being a Bronfman
A clear, candid and engaging memoir from the whisky magnate
Ami McKay conjures witches
The Witches of New York is low on peril and high on plodding narrative
A fascinating look at Camus’s The Stranger
The Stranger gets its own "novel biography"
Tim Wu delivers a screed about advertising
A caustic, illuminating history of advertising from Columbia law professor Tim Wu
Russia’s Bolshoi dance of history
Telling the story of Russia through one of the most famous ballets in the world
Joseph Boyden imagines Chanie Wenjack’s final, terrible hours
A spellbinding account of Chanie Wenjack, the Anishinaabe boy who died escaping a residential school
Beach Boy Brian Wilson’s memoir pulls no punches
Brian Wilson, the former Beach Boy, recalls his anguish in a new memoir
Irish novelist Eimear McBride tells a searing love story
In The Lesser Bohemians, Eimear McBride takes a fevered approach to trauma
How do men age? Here’s why the answer is ’poorly’
An evolutionary biology book from Richard G. Bribiescas explains why men are doomed