Tim Wu In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some...

Nadja Spiegelman A memoir of mothers and daughters—and mothers as daughters—traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again.Well past the age when most children stop believing...

Rupert Thomson On a sunny day in July 1964, Thomson returned home from school to discover his mother had died suddenly while playing tennis. 20 years later, Thomson and his...