Anna Argenio discusses her new smart-thinking list, finding ‘future classics’ and the benefits of a global outlook.

Towards the end of my chat about launching the new smart-thinking non-fiction list Orion Ignite with ... Argenio has thus far acquired 11 books (not all announced) in her new role and, while ...

A page by Mailer is livelier than ten by most English contemporaries; his speech, and the gestures accompanying it, prefigure the energy which illuminates his books. At sixty he ... first person in ...

The female psychopath employs various ruses and schemes as she deceives unwitting targets. Flamboyance plus seduction or use ...

A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty ...

Casey Chong takes a trip back to the 1990s to profile ten of the decade’s most terrifying movie psychopaths… Hollywood loves psychopaths in many forms. The character can be insane, obsessive or ...

Joshua Hammer’s “The Mesopotamian Riddle” chronicles the 19th-century contest between an archaeologist, a soldier and a clergyman to decipher an ancient text In “When the World Closed its ...

I hope my book can be a happy escape for others now too,” the “Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer” tells Page Six.

Here are our picks for the nonfiction books you need to read this Women’s History Month. Why It Made Our List: A nonfiction breath of fresh air for the tired feminist, this book reframes the ...

Sarah Chihaya examines our obsession with books — why they sustain us, how they perhaps cage us, if there can be too many — ...

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