B. David Zarley
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Chicago, IL, United States
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American Sherlock Profiles the Man Who Shaped Modern Forensic Science
Kate Winkler Dawson's new book profiles Edward Oscar Heinrich, who revolutionized crime scene forensics during the 1920s and '30s. → Read More
A Turbulent Weekend Changes a Grad Student's Future in Real Life
Brandon Taylor's 'Real Life' follows grad student Wallace, the novel's black, queer and quiet protagonist, over one tumultuous weekend. → Read More
The Outlaw Ocean Exposes Crime in International Waters
Ian Urbina's new book draws on five years of investigative reporting to expose corruption across the world's oceans. → Read More
Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Reads More Like a Memoir Than a Novel
Framed as a letter from Little Dog to his mother who cannot read it, Vuong's debut novel skips along the bloody sidewalks of Connecticut. → Read More
Susan Hockfield's New Book Reveals How Biology Is Revolutionizing Technology
'The Age of Living Machines' explains that life is shaping tech, not the other way around. → Read More
Carolyn Forché's Memoir Proves We Need Poets to Chronicle Wars
'What You Have Heard Is True' is Forché's eyewitness account of an El Salvador on the verge of civil war. → Read More
Nanny Fine Is Fine Art, Thanks to This Nostalgic Instagram Mashup
She had style! She had flair! She was there! → Read More
We the People: Why the U.S. Constitution's Preamble Is a Promise We Have Failed to Keep
Erwin Chemerinsky's new book, We the People, is a blueprint for resistance and change. → Read More
Why Religion? Elaine Pagels' New Book Reveals the Power of Religious Rhetoric
Pagels’ latest book details the impossible pain after losing her young son to disease and her beloved husband to an alpine fall. → Read More
In Washington Black, Esi Edugyan Reveals the Highs and Horrors of Science
Washington "Wash" Black is plucked from slavery in the Barbadian cane fields and deposited into a life as a scientific illustrator. → Read More
Turns Out You Can Put Takis Flavor Crystals on Everything
I opened a bag of Takis to find a giant, magical lump of nitro seasoning awaiting me. Here's what I did with it. → Read More
The Apocalypse Is Personal in Ling Ma's Severance
Ling Ma's dystopia is driven by Shen Fever, a pathogenic infection which arrives like the vengeance of the developing world. → Read More
Courtenay Hameister's New Book Inspired Me to Catalog My Anxieties
Okay Fine Whatever chronicles Hameister's year of undertaking bizarre experiences to battle anxiety. → Read More
Jordy Rosenberg's Rogue Steals Back Queer History in Confessions of the Fox
Rosenberg envisions Jack Sheppard, an infamous thief of 1720s London, as transgender in his new novel. → Read More
Fight Doctor Linda D. Dahl Battles Stereotypes in Tooth and Nail
Dahl has written a memoir with enough fisticuffs for the fight fan, enough medicine for the scalpel supplicant and enough human drama for anyone who has ever felt alienated. → Read More
Beck Dorey-Stein Reinserts People (and Personality) into Politics in Her Obama-Era Memoir
From the Corner of the Oval, Dorey-Stein's memoir about her years as a White House stenographer, invokes the best and the messiest aspects of American government. → Read More
We Were Told, "When They Go Low, We Go High." Now It's Time to Fight and to Sing.
In Philip Collins' new collection and analysis of the greatest speeches in history, the author hits on three unassailable truths. → Read More
Growing Up in Porter Fox's Northland, the Forgotten Space of the U.S.-Canada Border
Porter Fox's new book chronicles his 4,000-mile journey along the world's longest international boundary: the U.S.-Canada border. → Read More
I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son by Kent Russell
Regardless of whatever threat he is staring down, Russell is keenly aware that something is amiss in his very soul and loins. I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son aims to figure out what. → Read More
Sabrina Cartoonist Nick Drnaso on Paranoia, Conspiracies & Air Force Tattoos
Despite spanning from Chicago to Colorado, the world of Nick Drnaso's Sabrina is a claustrophobic one. It is there in the rigidity of the panels, the uniformity of Air Force dress, the snow which blankets both settings; it is there in the way time, space and place are bound, abutting, and in the way violence, fear and paranoia are constantly crouching in the corners, the formication-inducing… → Read More