A recent article by Lauren Michele Jackson in this week’s edition of the magazine, the “New Yorker,” reviewed Chernow’s extensive biography on Twain. One sentence jumped out.

The photo op is an emblem of a discarded time. Taken in 1991, during the second annual Great American Workout, a fitness event hosted on the South Lawn of the White House, it shows President ...

and Sandra Rayford Howard, 52, both of Fayetteville Darrell James Littrell, 56, and Sandra Jean Backerman, 51, both of Prairie Grove Bryant Taylor Penzo, 32, and Hannah Elizabeth Patterson ...

America sees itself in a young boy who learns—but not too much—and whose story ends with his eyes on an open horizon, a stretch of land claimed by the nation but not yet bound to it.

Just a day after joining his fellow Cabinet members in offering obsequious praise to President Trump, Mike Waltz, the national-security adviser, has landed in a dismally familiar position: out of ...

Careless People, by Sarah Wynn-Williams (Flatiron). In 2011, Wynn-Williams convinced Facebook to hire her as a “diplomat,” and her incisive memoir tracks the evolution of the company’s ...

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In the spring of 1940, F. Scott Fitzgerald was worried about “The Great Gatsby.” It had been fifteen years since the novel was published, and the author had little to show for it. “My God I ...

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In my spare time, I’m an obsessed photographer, and through the years I’ve used dozens of cameras. A while ago, a horrible misfortune befell the one that I treasure most. Arriving home, I ...

Ross always made it look easy. After her son started school, she heard from a teacher that Jackson Hole was an “in” hangout, so she infiltrates a table of girls there at lunch. Hot with ...