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"I'm a comedian. I'm not here to be agreed with," says Colin Quinn. "In fact, if you came up to me and said, 'You're not funny, but I agree with you,' I'd be offended because I'm here to make people laugh. ... It's much more powerful than somebody agreeing with you." Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Audible hide caption
In A 'Coast-To-Coast Roast,' Colin Quinn Finds Humor In The State We're In
H.R. McMaster, then U.S. national security adviser, attends a joint press conference of President Trump and Baltic heads of state at the White House in April 2018. Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
President Trump and H.R. McMaster walk toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 16, 2017. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke Bloomsbury Publishing hide caption
Bishop Michael Curry gave a sermon at the 2018 royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, at St. George's Chapel, in Windsor, England. Steve Parsons/Pool / Getty Images hide caption
Bishop Michael Curry Preaches The Power Of Love To Find 'Hope In Troubling Times'
In her new book, Modern Madness: An Owner's Manual, Terri Cheney, who lives with bipolar disorder, shares advice for dealing with anxiety and depression and helping loved ones through a crisis. Neha Gupta/Getty Images hide caption
Karen Speros, 82, waits for a movie to start at a Regal movie theater in Irvine, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. Jae C. Hong/AP hide caption
The National Book Foundation released its annual book award longlists on Friday. Pornsawan Sangmanee / EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm hide caption
The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War, by David Nasaw Penguin Press hide caption
In his new book No Rules Rules, Reed Hastings attributes Netflix's success to the unorthodox office culture at the company. Hastings is pictured at Summit LA17 in Los Angeles in 2017. Amy Harris/Invision/AP hide caption
A collection of current and past presidential advertising materials hangs on a wall in the visitor center of the New Hampshire State House in Concord, N.H. Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Collect Data, Influence Votes: 'If Then' Traces The Genesis Of Data-Driven Politics
Copies of The Room Where it Happened, a memoir by former national security adviser John Bolton, are seen at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Glendale, Calif., in June. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The House by the Lake: The True Story of a House, Its History, and the Four Families Who Made It Home, by Thomas Harding. Illustrated by Britta Teckentrup Candlewick Studio hide caption
Hastings Writes About Netflix's Cultural Reinvention In 'No Rules Rules'
Home Sweet Labyrinth: Susanna Clarke's Mysterious 'Piranesi' Will Lock You In
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, Jill Lepore NPR hide caption
Ayad Akhtar won a Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, his play about a conflicted American Muslim man living in New York after Sept. 11. Vincent Tullo/Little, Brown And Company hide caption
It's Real, It's Fiction, It's A Paradox: Ayad Akhtar On His 'Homeland Elegies'
Journalist Bob Woodward, seen here in 2017 arriving for meetings with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York, is the author of the newly released book Rage. Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
"We all have to work at making the immigrant story much more public," said Maria Hinojosa, author of a new memoir, Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America. Photo by Kevin Abosch hide caption
Journalist Maria Hinojosa Tells Latinos, Silenced Voices: 'We Need You'
