In “The Feather Wars,” James H. McCommons pays tribute to the nation’s first conservationists. By Joshua Hammer As his new memoir demonstrates, he himself would achieve fame as a visual artist, ...

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“The Arsenio Hall Show,” which premièred on January 3, 1989, and ran for six seasons, became the unofficial late-night home of hip-hop. “Arsenio,” a memoir written by the eponymous Black comedian with ...

March 16, 2026 • Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue re-imagines the story of the American West — and the Apache fight for survival — in an epic that's both defiantly challenging and, at times, magical.

Ever since Frank Herbert released his seminal sci-fi novel Dune in 1965, readers have been consumed by the expansive and complex political wranglings of his influential stories. While Herbert only ...