Are self-help books actually helpful? That's the question Kristen Meinzer sought to answer in her upcoming book, How to Be Fine: What We Learned From Living by the Rules Of 50 Self-Help Books.
A book is still a perfect gift. So, because we're betting that some people have a bit of the procrastinator in them, here's a Code Switch gift to you: Our list of books that stuck with us this year.
A new book explores how overhunting and habitat destruction have left us with only a fraction of the foods that existed a century ago, and the changes that are needed to preserve our culinary variety.
Nearly 40 years after it was published, Octavia Butler's time-travel novel Kindred has been adapted for a modern audience as a graphic novel. But reinterpreting the masterwork was a daunting task.
Some Simon & Schuster authors are outraged over plans to publish the book by Milo Yiannopoulos, widely known for his attacks against actress Leslie Jones on Twitter.
The book, called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I & II picks up the story of Harry and co. where the series epilogue left off. It will comprise the script of a play of the same name.
In a long discussion on Twitter, one critic called the illustrations "candy coated images of slavery." The illustrator says these images have been taken out of context.
Molly Pollak was a middle and high school teacher. When she retired this year, former students gave her a book filled with their letters. It reads like a textbook for great teaching.
Oksana Marafioti was 15 when her family moved to Hollywood. She’d grown up in Russia, touring with the family’s band of gypsies across the Siberian tundra.
Tony Ciaglia was a teenager at summer camp, when a boating accident landed him in a coma. He spent the next few years relearning how to walk and talk, and navigating a world of medications and teen bullies.
Richard Menzies was driving down a Nevada road in 1976 when he passed a hitchhiker. And that's when Richard Menzies did a double take: the hitchhiker had no feet.
Nevada's history is steeped in the nuclear tests that exploded across the desert in the 1950s. Nevada author Ann Ronald imagines what life must have been like for the scientists, military, ranchers, and other locals in her book, Friendly Fallout 1953.
Stu Michaels was a former New York City detective who had tracked the Son of Sam killer, when he moved to Las Vegas and found himself heading casino security for Steve Wynn. From picking prostitutes out of a crowd to shopping with Michael Jackson, to lending Bill Gates money, Stu shares a cadre of celebrity-rich stories.
Stu Michaels was a former New York City detective who had tracked the Son of Sam killer, when he moved to Las Vegas and found himself heading casino security for Steve Wynn. From picking prostitutes out of a crowd to shopping with Michael Jackson, to lending Bill Gates money, Stu shares a cadre of celebrity-rich stories.
Phyllis Barber had to confront some difficult decisions about her marriage and her life as a Mormon. She details those sometimes painful processes in her new memoir Raw Edges: A Memoir.
The United States has only 5% of the world's population but it uses
60% of the world's drugs. That number alone is enough to suggest that
we have no chance of winning the war on drugs or so argues Dr.
Economist Raj Patel writes in his new book that we have placed too much
trust in the market value of everything. And that has had detrimental
effects on our democracy as well as our economy.
