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Transformed by India
By Stephen P. Huyler
An anthropologist celebrates the country that reshaped him.
Recalling a once-vaunted newsroom and its big-headed anchors.
Blessings and Disasters
By Alexis Okeowo
Minority voices ring out in this affecting memoir of the South.
The Colonel and the King
By Peter Guralnick
How well do we know the Svengali behind the singer?
Slip
By Mallary Tenore Tarpley
A smart, nuanced account of navigating fraught relationships with food.
American Trickster: The Hidden Lives of Carlos Castaneda
By Ru Marshall
The 1970s hustler claimed he’d been sent by a shaman.
A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy
By Tony Lee Moral
Two figures from the auteur’s orbit feature heavily in this new biography.
The Biographer’s Quest
By Jeffrey Meyers
An author reflects on his decades spent chronicling others’ lives.
