Celebrity Profiles

Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance’s 2016 memoir about Appalachian poverty and social mobility, received significant attention but won few major literary award honors. It was not a N...

The best selling books of the 1970s shaped conversations about identity, systems, and modernity, reflecting and reframing postwar affluence and anxiety. This evergreen explainer...

Since its publication in 1964, the book cover for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has played a central role in how readers encounter Roald Dahl’s story. The cover is often t...