Presidential Memoirs Don’t Always Take This Long to Write
The wait is over for the first volume of Barack Obama’s presidential memoirs, “A Promised Land,” which came out on Tuesday. But as a slew...
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A Trump Memoir Would Sell. Will Publishers Buy It?
When American presidents leave office, regardless of their parties or approval ratings, a common ritual awaits: They write books, capturing the moment for history and...
Who Is Miles Taylor?
WASHINGTON — Miles Taylor, who revealed on Wednesday that he was the anonymous author of a New York Times Op-Ed article in 2018 that was...
How Bob Woodward’s Latest Book ‘Rage’ Became Yet Another Best Seller
When Bob Woodward was writing his latest book, “Rage,” he kept a stash of Olympus digital tape recorders scattered around his Washington, D.C., rowhouse. There...
Self-Publishing Is a Gamble. Why Is Donald Trump Jr. Doing It?
There is a lot about Donald Trump Jr.’s second book that is unusual. One of his father’s most effective surrogates, Donald Trump Jr. plans to...
In Trumpworld, the Grown-Ups in the Room All Left, and Got Book Deals
It was the summer of 2016, and the Republican Party was about to nominate Donald J. Trump for president. Until then, many party members had...
‘Demagogue’ Remembers a Vintage American Bully
“It’s not often that a man’s name becomes an ism,” Larry Tye writes in his new biography of Joseph McCarthy, the senator from Wisconsin whose...
This Profile of Charlie Kaufman Has Changed
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Duchess Goldblatt Is a Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside a Twitter Account
The painting of a 17th-century Dutch aristocrat hangs in the west wing of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. She wears a ruff collar,...