YEAR ONE: The barrage of Obamacentric books continues. The latest is The Promise (Simon & Schuster; $28), a 480-page account of the president’s first year in office by Jonathan Alter, a senior editor at Newsweek. Read more
From living rooms to casinos to the White House—poker pulses in the veins of the American character. Or so says James McManus in his new book, written while he gambled online Read more
Chicago psychotherapist Dr. Richard Baer, author of a remarkable new book on a woman with multiple personality disorder, talks about his treatment of this astonishing case. Read more
In a new book on friendship, a noted Chicago author concludes that it should be treated as an art—one worthy of regular maintenance through thoughtful cultivation Read more
