Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano seeks to rescue history and reclaim truth-telling

In his latest book, intrepid reporter Ted Conover ruminates on roads from Peru to Palestine

A look at Barbara Ehrenreich’s latest book on what’s been bringing America down.

A look at one man’s take on the reality of Gaza through his unique brand of comic art.

Two starkly different air-travel voyages are explored in Walter Kirn’s Up in the Air and Jonathan Miles’ Dear American Airlines.

A look at two sisters’ separate journeys in a Buddhist country in Elsie Sze’s The Heart of the Buddha.

A look at two books written about one man: Mary Tillman’s Boots on the Ground by Dusk and Jon Krakauer’s Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman.

A review of Patrick Radden Keefe’s account of a Chinese-immigrant-smuggling operation.