The former chief executive of Whole Foods Market learned to reconcile his starry-eyed ideals with the demands of running a business, writes Philip Delves Broughton
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Elin Hilderbrand has been churning out books for her legions of fans every summer for the past 25 years. Not anymore.
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Birds do it, bees do it: Networking doesn’t require a digital connection. Or even a human language.
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Social media companies expected to eventually delete the inactive accounts of users who died. The idea met considerable resistance, writes Steven Poole
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In an excerpt from a new biography, Elizabeth Beller recounts the first days of a tragic American love story.
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Sebastian Junger writes that he now understands why emerging from a near-death experience turns some people insane.
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Books that illuminate the workplace and the marketplace, as featured by The Wall Street Journal’s reviewers.
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A method of quantitative reasoning—originally developed by an 18th-century clergyman—has enjoyed a new vogue among the Silicon Valley set, writes David A. Shaywitz
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Children’s author Marguerite Henry wasn’t just talented and prolific. She was an innovator in the art of promotion.
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The focus on America’s rate of economic expansion took on added urgency once it became the measure of who was winning the Cold War, writes Edward Glaeser
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Here’s what we’re reading this week: The Challenger disaster, Claire Messud’s family epic, Mount Everest obsessives and more.
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New weight-loss drugs appear to produce dramatic results, but there are downsides. Moral dilemmas arise as well.
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The author of “The Emperor’s Children” tracks the aftermath of Algeria’s conflicts in the story of a family shadowed by the past.
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Friendship guided Warren Buffett’s decision to give so much money to Bill Gates’s foundation. So did a skepticism toward inherited wealth, writes Roger Lowenstein
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The idea of a “stream of consciousness” isn’t accurate. We’re often oblivious to time’s passing and seem to collect experiences as snapshots, writes Matthew Hutson
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We’ve never been so flooded with information. Sorting it out usefully is the challenge, writes Michael Luca
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Here’s what we’re reading this week: Missions over Iwo Jima, the long legacy of Freud’s ideas, where wedding vows came from and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

The solemn wedding rite suggests that we find our most flourishing selves in the place where our freedoms are expressed in mutual devotion, writes Tara Isabella Burton
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Paul Auster became known for his acclaimed 'New York Trilogy,' a postmodern take on detective fiction.
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Here is a selection of April's most noteworthy books, as discussed by The Wall Street Journal’s reviewers.
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