As Brooklyn’s new poet laureate, Tina Chang wants to “demystify the role of the poet.”

Memoirs of surviving brain surgery and a difficult childhood, a primer on the art of conversation and a history of a northern slave estate.

A memoir of how cooking helped save the marriage of Paula Butturini and her husband, reporters traumatized by war.

A group portrait of Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil and their experiments with hallucinogens in the early 1960s.

David Shenk argues that that discipline, not giftedness, is vital to greatness.

David Shenk argues that that discipline, not giftedness, is vital to greatness.