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The Book That Changed Your Life: Lindsay Wong

"Reading Lau was like staring at my teenage self in a high-end department-store dressing room."

The Book That Changed Your Life: Kit Pearson

"Her anguish was so real that I almost winced in recognition."

The Book That Changed Your Life: Hasan Namir

"Before I read this book, I was lost, trying to find myself."

The Book That Changed Your Life: Eve Joseph

"Maybe we love a book because we see something of ourselves in it."

Summer books: Lazier days call for a dose of reality

Here are a few new nonfiction titles that might work well with long afternoons away from the office.

Spring Books roundup: Alicia Elliott, Matt Rader, Anakana Schofield, Peter Wohlleben

Here are four provocative titles to keep in mind while you go about celebrating the fact that we're (probably) done with ice and snow for another year.

Spring Books Q&A: Yasuko Thanh looks to inspire tolerance in street-life memoir Mistakes to Run With

The book’s honesty is relentless, and its spirit of survival defies platitudes.

Carmine Street’s Rick Kelly makes guitars from New York’s bones

His golden-throated instruments have drawn clients including Lou Reed, Patti Smith, and Bob Dylan.

Marlon James sets out on epic voyage with Africa-infused fantasy novel Black Leopard Red Wolf

"I wanted something that sounded like those sorts of folktales that my grandfather and grandmother would tell me, and the African epics that I read, which are decidedly not...

Five Songs About: motivation

Here are five songs designed to get you motivated and to get your blood pumping. Do it!