Readings

During WWII, five of Hollywood's most successful directors donated their careers to the war effort. Mark Harris's Five Came Back explains how they made art out of propaganda and refined their voices, shaping mainstream cinema in the years to come.

The famed biographer of John Cheever and Richard Yates discusses the tenuous bond between him and his self-destructive brother, whose suicide provides the basis of his new memoir, The Splendid Things We Planned.