Taking as inspiration his mother’s own Red Cross service, novelist Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women’s heroism in World War II. With its portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene, explores the "Donut Dollies," an all-women volunteer group launched by the Red Cross during WWII.
This week, Elizabeth Brundage discusses her new book “The Vanishing Point,” which takes a close look at relationships; the mistakes we make early on...
In 2004, Historian Russell Shorto published “The Island at the Center of the World,” a book about Manhattan and the role of the Dutch...
This week, Elizabeth Kolbert is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction. In her new book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of...
