Perched on a Kabul hilltop, the Inter-Continental Hotel was built to embody modern Afghanistanâthen spent decades surviving everything that tried to erase it. In The Finest Hotel in Kabul, BBC correspondent Lyse Doucet tells the countryâs recent history through one building and the people who kept it running: the young manager trying to stay calm […]
One Sentence, Big Stakesđâ¨
What if Americaâs most famous idea came down to a few fiercely debated words? In The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, Walter Isaacson unpacks the Declaration of Independenceâs second sentenceââWe hold these truthsâŚââand shows how a small committeeâs edits helped shape a nationâs biggest promise. Youâll see how Jeffersonâs original phrasing evolved through collaboration (including Franklinâs […]
House Hunt, High Stakes
What if finding your âforever homeâ became the one thing youâd sacrifice everything for? In Best Offer Wins, 37-year-old publicist Margo has spent 18 months losing bidding wars in the ruthless Washington, DC suburbs. When she finally spots the perfect Colonial in her dream neighborhood, she decides she wonât lose this one, not to cash […]
Tea, Treason, and a Spyđ
In a Berlin apartment in 1943, a small circle of well-connected Germans gathered for tea and spoke the unspeakable: Hitler had to go. They werenât soldiers in hiding, but aristocrats, diplomats, educators, and quiet helpers who sheltered Jews, traded forbidden truths, and imagined a post-Nazi Germany. Their meetings felt almost ordinary, until one guest arrived […]
A Man, in 3 Verbs
What does it actually mean to âbe a manâ in 2025, when so many boys and men feel broke, isolated, and stuck? In Notes on Being a Man, Scott Galloway makes a blunt, surprisingly tender case that weâre failing young men, and paying the price in loneliness, âdeaths of despair,â and a widening gap between […]
Mormon Rules, Real Reckoningâ¨
Mayci Neeley grew up inside strict Mormon expectations, believing she could âdo it rightâ if she followed the rules. Then everything breaks: sheâs 20, pregnant, and the babyâs father, Arik, dies suddenlyâleaving her drowning in grief, guilt, and a public smile thatâs basically a mask. In Told You So, Mayci tells the story TikTok couldnât […]
Two Boys, One Tankâ¨
Three boys walk into the darkest centuryâand somehow, light follows. The Boys in the Light traces a startling convergence: Eddie Willner, a Jewish teenager ripped from his German childhood and forced through camps and slave labor, and two American soldiersâElmer Hovland, a steady Minnesota farm boy, and Sammy âPepsiâ DeCola, a big-hearted Italian American who […]
Jane Boleynâs Dangerous Game
In Henry VIIIâs court, survival isnât about innocenceâitâs about timing. Boleyn Traitor pulls you into the sharp, shadowed world of Jane Boleyn, Lady Rochford: Anne Boleynâs sister-in-law, confidante, andâwhen the wind turnsâan unwilling pawn. Jane rises by watching, listening, and trading secrets like currency, serving queens from Anne Boleyn to Anne of Cleves to Katheryn […]
The Original Kingmaker
Everyone knew Pamela Churchill Harriman as a glamorous socialite. Almost no one understood what she really was: a power broker who helped shape 20th-century history from the shadows. In Kingmaker, award-winning biographer Sonia Purnell reveals how Pamela used charm, intelligence, and ruthless social skill to influence presidents, diplomats, and party bosses for more than fifty […]
The Comeback No One Stopped
Trumpâs 2024 comeback wasnât just a campaignâit was a revenge tour aimed at the entire American system. In Retribution, ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl takes you behind the scenes of Trumpâs return to the White House, from the hush-money trial that turned a courthouse hallway into a campaign stage to the assassination attempts that reshaped […]
