Frank Capra’s Mythmaking Magic
Anthony Lane reviews Sam Wasson’s “Frank Capra: A Life,” discusses two hostile previous biographies by Joseph McBride, and looks back…
Books
admin How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough
Gideon Lewis-Kraus reviews “Kobuk the Destroyer, and Other Tales from the Wild, Unseen World of Test Engineering,” by Alex Davies.
Hernan Diaz’s Grand Experiment
Kathryn Schulz reviews “Ply,” by Hernan Diaz.
Tom Brady’s Endgame
A new biography by Lars Anderson argues that the star quarterback’s divorce from Gisele Bündchen was his biggest fumble. Jennifer…
What’s Really Behind the Baby Bust?
Margaret Talbot reviews “Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty,” by Anna Louie Sussman.
The Wealthiest—and Stealthiest—Class in America
John Lanchester reviews “The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There,” by Owen Zidar…
Is Will Power Overrated?
Will power is the worst way to change your behavior, Duckworth argues in her new book.
The Art of American Sophistication
Adam Gopnik reviews “American Sophistication: How the Casual Became Cool,” by Ross Posnock.
Has the Supreme Court Sandbagged Democracy?
Daniel Immerwahr on “Supremacy,” by Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan, and its argument that the Supreme Court should be stripped…
“The Disappearers” Stages the Pain and Pleasure of Jamaican Gay Life
Katy Waldman on a new novel by the Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, which follows a group of gay men…