This essay is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. “This is enough, O Lord! Take my life…” (1 Kgs 19:4) My plan was not to read three ...

Are you hoping for a happy, productive, and successful year in 2025? Wharton psychologist and best-selling author Adam Grant has some reading suggestions for you. In a new Substack post, Grant named ...

Few novels have captured the complexities of addiction, poverty, and coming of age in modern America quite like “Demon Copperhead.” Barbara Kingsolver’s 2023 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel presents a ...

February is Black History Month, and this year's this is "African Americans and Labor." Here are three books I recommend: 1. Robert Higgs, Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy 1865 ...