Books

Healthcare Reform

Healthcare reform rock star

Talking medicine, checklists and alternative music with New Yorker staff writer and surgeon Atul Gawande
Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
History

When smart people believe dumb things

From 9/11 to the moon landing, how conspiracy theories have changed history -- and why we must fight back
Thomas Rogers
Disability

Why is braille dying?

In an age of audiobooks, only 10 percent of blind kids learn it. But listening isn't the same as reading
J.D. Salinger

Salinger: "Recluse" with an ugly history of women

How we've all found a convenient way of avoiding the truth about his troubled past
Mikki Halpin
Apple

Kindle killer

Amazon's behind-the-scenes battle with publishers shows how the iPad is already making its mark
Laura Miller
What to Read

Famous hypochondriacs

Darwin, Warhol and Proust -- what history's greatest worrywarts got out of being "sick"
Laura Miller
What to Read

Her cells saved lives while her family suffered

The true story of a woman whose enormous gift to science was shamefully repaid
Laura Miller
Nonfiction

500 days of blubber

A new book probes the romantic appeal -- and surprisingly kinky sex life -- of whales
Jed Lipinski

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Poet wins U.K.'s Costa Book of the Year

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Saturday, Jan 23, 2010 21:01 EST

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Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010 20:20 EST

"The Hidden Brain": Behind your secret racism

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Monday, Jan 18, 2010 21:01 EST

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Monday, Jan 18, 2010 12:19 EST

Stead, Pinkney win top children's book awards

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Gloomy nevermore? Portrait shows cheerful Poe

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Barnes and Noble: Textbooks for rent

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Friday, Jan 8, 2010 20:20 EST

Elizabeth Gilbert, the reluctant bride

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