Ken Ilgunas

Ilgunas returns with a heavily researched, passionate argument about the need for America to emulate many other countries and allow its...

I wanted this book to go on and on. I’m a nut for presidential biographies, and this is one of the best… Washington was a flawed man in...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813) I’d already read P&P, and I was already thinking that I was done with old English lit., so I...

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (2014) Perhaps my favorite sci-fi book of all time. It’s about a man who gets to...

Mashable has kindly published my list of recommended books for the “21st Century Environmentalist.” It’s interesting to see how...

501 Minutes to Christ by Poe Ballentine A collection of personal essays that chart the life of a real-life American itinerant. Ballantine...

More and more, it's becoming a struggle to find a book worth reading. The classics no longer seem relevant to my life. Contemporary...

I spent about the first quarter of 2014 researching books on the Great Plains—many of which were great, but few of which would interest...

Climate change fascinates me like nothing else. It is the defining story of the 21st Century. Glaciers are melting, oceans are rising,...

Kerry Emmanuel is a professor of climate science at MIT. He was a registered Republican, but he recently changed his political...

[While it might seem like I’ve crammed three genres into this list, I believe that each transcends the others, (or at least they’re too...