WE CALLED IT CULTURE (272 pp.]—Victoria Case and Robert Ormond Case—Doubleday ($3).Millions of U.S. small-towners remember the institution called Chautauqua, usually with affection. For ...

"Battle for the Big Top" Author: Les Standiford. PublicAffairs, 272 pages, $28. Florida author Les Standiford (“Last Train to Paradise,” “Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, and the Rise of America’s ...

That is my favorite sentence in the book, because its trademark shrug, laced with a light sigh, feels true not just to The New Yorker but to the whole eternal folderol of choosing to keep a cat ...

His latest book, "Battle For The Big Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, And The Death-Defying Saga Of The American Circus," is out now. Les Standiford, thanks so much for talking to us.

Here are the top most controversial books of 2020. ... One big upset in the 2020 data is the absence of A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, written by Jill Twiss and illustrated by EG Keller.

The pleasure of Setterfield’s beguiling tale is that much of its allure comes from the books which populate its setting. Bookshops by Jorge Carrión This brilliant tour of notable bookshops around the ...

The Cold Start Problem. Andrew Chen. The Cold Start Problem - Andrew Chen (to be released Dec 7, 2021). Andrew Chen is a former startup executive (including Uber) and current investor at ...

Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s memoir and social critique, “Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage,” soared to the top of the bestseller lists when it was published last year. The book ...

We asked top Wall Street strategists which books had helped them to better understand the market. Their recommendations include Michael Lewis' "The Big Short" and Nassim Taleb's "The Black Swan".