Rallph K AndristOn May 14, 1804, a party of explorers dispatched by President Thomas Jefferson set off up the Missouri River into America's newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Under the leadership...

Michael Lewis   The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of...

Joyce Wadler The true story that inspired David Hwang's play "M Butterfly", about a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, posted to Peking, who fell in love with a seductive opera singer,...

Abraham Socher “Socher is one of the sharpest observers of Jewish America in our times. These essays, tracing a journey from a yeshiva to Oberlin College and from Franz Kafka...

Jim Sleeper A political journalist reflects on the liberal policies that deal with race, arguing that the liberal view of race is outdated and that these views promote a country...

Christopher Hill In the plays and popular folklore of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are many expressions of liberty against the law. Taking this literary theme as his starting point,...

Mark R LevinConservative talk radio's fastest-growing superstar is also a New York Times bestselling phenomenon: the author of the groundbreaking critique of the Supreme Court, Men in Black, and the...

Julia and Derek ParkerLibra: 23 September to 23 October. In search of peace and harmony, librans are charming romantics yet sometimes fickle and flirtatious. Diplomatic and tactful, they are often...

Complied by Jennifer Hall and Rachel Greenblatt Library in a Book. compiled by Jennifer Hall and Rachel Greenblatt. Here's your own personal library, an anthology filled with inspiring, entertaining, and...

Littell HartLiddell Hart's History of the First World War first appeared in 1930 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest, most cogent accounts of the conflict ever published....

Chana MantelThe small Swedish island of Lidingo became a haven for the homeless, shattered girls saved from the ravages of the Holocaust. There they received the warmth, love, and Jewish...

Meyer Birnhaum with Yonason Rosenblum   A Soldier's Story: Growing up Jewish in America, Liberating the DP Camps, and a New Home in Jerusalem   First published January 1, 1984