Thomas Flynn

<p>Thomas Piketty’s <i>Capital in the Twenty-First Century</i> is a not so surprising best seller—it’s rigorously researched and arrestingly written.<br> </p>

A dystopic vision of our technological future, a bracing new analysis of capitalistic inequality, and a meditation on history and memoir.

Three nonfiction books: a look at missionary work in the Caribbean and Holland, an account of being a stringer in the Congo, and German espionage in the U.S. during World War I.

<p>From the controversial second book by tiger mom Amy Chua, as she tackles race and cultural advantages, to a reading of George Eliot’s <i>Middlemarch</i>.</p>

From a biography of Beethoven focusing on his relationships, to the best of McSweeney’s.

<p><i>Fruitvale Station</i> star Michael B. Jordan’s name may be next to Robert Redford and Tom Hanks at the Oscars. If not, there’s always a chance he’ll be in <i>Star Wars.</i></p>

Lenny Cooke was supposed to be an NBA superstar. Then LeBron James hit a game-winning shot that ended the high school phenom’s career.

This week, from the short fiction of an overlooked American master to the family history of three generations of real-life adventurers.

From a legend of Mexican crime fiction and a biography of Modest Musorgsky to a giant of Spanish literature.

From the Secret Service agent whose gun went off accidentally to alien abduction, here are 12 experts’ favorite conspiracy theories about who killed JFK and why.