The death toll from the conflict in Afghanistan reached 2,000 last week.

If the U.S. hadn't reached that grim benchmark would the war still mean anything to the general public right now?

The conflict in Afghanistan is in danger of becoming a "forgotten...

David McRaney
Gotham Books, 302 pgs. 2012

Let's face it: You aren't that smart.

It's a bold assertion -- maybe even an insult -- that isn't likely to endear you toward reading the rest of this article, or the book of similar name. Yet journalist David McRaney's...

By Christopher Johnson
2011, Hardback, 246 pages, W.W. Norton & Company $21.95

Omit needless words.

That phrase is the age-old writing wisdom given by Strunk & White, in The Elements of Style. Little did Strunk know when his advice was first published in 1918...

Psst? Wanna know a secret? The Internet is hiding something from you.

Eli Pariser's book The Filter Bubble treads lightly into the realm of the Internet with a book that in lesser hands could have become an unwieldy and complex subject.

Beginning with its cover -- a sly...