The Free Library of Philadelphia launched an innovative program, the Book Bike program, in 2016 that brings reading to local communities, writes Gabe Donahue ...
By Emily Eakin His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a silent Benedictine retreat. “You learn to love the world only by looking at it closely,” he wrote. Here are the year ...
The holidays are officially here, which also means there’ll be plenty of time to snuggle up with a good book. But did you know you can get plenty of free e-books in January? If you’ve spent ...
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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.