REVIEW: Anne Enright's Fictional Memoir of a Beguiling Anglo-Irish Actress
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Actress is the ‘Must-Read Novel of the Year’
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REVIEW: Reading Robert Christgau, One of the Greatest Rock Critics of All Time
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And His Inimitable ‘Ten Step Program for Growing Better Ears’
Read MoreREVIEW: A Thriller Based on the Real-Life Mystery of a Scientist Who Fell Out a Window
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Germ Warfare, the CIA — and the Death of a Man Who May Have Known Too Much
Read MoreREVIEW: A Beguiling Ethiopian Novel with Women Soldiers at Center Stage
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Set in Haile Selassie-Era Ethiopia, The Shadow King Wrestles with Feminism, Colonialism, War, and Much More
Read MoreBOOK REVIEW: How Prosecutors are Using Rap Music Against Black Defendants
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Judges and Juries Are Being Prejudiced by Lyrics they Don’t Fully Understand
Read MoreREVIEW: The Poetry of Jane Kenyon, Who Died Tragically Young 25 Years Ago
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Kenyon has Been Gone Long Enough to Assess her Work Without Dwelling on the Unfulfilled Promise of her Life
Read MoreREVIEW: A Humane Look at the Deadly Anchorage Earthquake of 1964
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A Good Friday Disaster that Killed more than 100 People in the Newly Established State
Read MoreREVIEW: 'The Last Tourist' Brings Back One of the Great Modern Espionage Heroes
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CIA Assassin Milo Weaver Has Returned to Practice His Dark Arts, and it is Good to Have Him Back
Read MoreREVIEW: How Churchill Brilliantly Rallied England to Win World War II
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A Story of Political Leadership that is as Timely as it is Inspiring
Read MoreREVIEW: For Presidents Day, a Fine Book About Lincoln's Life Just Before He Took Office
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A Clear-Eyed Exploration of an Under-Examined Period in the Great Man’s Life
Read MoreREVIEW: Why is the World So Weary and Cynical Today? A Major French Novelist Ponders
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Is Life Worth Living? Is Selfless Love Possible? If You Want Happy Bromides, Look Elsewhere
Read MoreREVIEW: A Memoir of Living Among Men Who Keep Body Parts as Trophies
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Carolyn Forche Looks Back on the Horrors of Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s
Read MoreREVIEW: What Can a Nanny Do When the Kids are Prone to Spontaneously Combust?
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An ‘Electifyingly Bizarre’ Novel About Caring for “Normal Kids Who Just Catch on Fire”
Read MoreREVIEW: 'Olive, Again' Marks the Stunning Return of the Tart, Intractable Olive Kitteridge
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Strout Alternates Among the Dark and the Disquieting, the Ordinary and the Luminous
Read MoreREVIEW: Elizabeth Strout's Beloved Olive Kitteridge is Back, Better than Ever
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Strout Vividly Conveys the Delicate Balance Between the Desire to Leave Home and the Desperate Need to Return
Read MoreREVIEW: Obama's National Security Adviser Recalls a Time When Our Foreign Policy Wasn't Crazy
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Susan Rice’s Memoir Harks Back to a Time of Competence and Idealism — 3 Years ago
Read MoreREVIEW: What are We To Make of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Hemingway?
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Some True Greatness, Some Overrated Work, and a Lot of Tragic Self-Destruction
Read MoreREVIEW: Nicholas Lemann on How the New Capitalism is Destroying America
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Radical Libertarianism, He Argues, is Driving Our Soaring Levels of Inequality
Read MoreREVIEW: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is Back--and So is Her Evil Twin Sister
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A Highly Satisfying New Installment of the Much Beloved Thriller Series
Read MoreREVIEW: A Timely Look at P. T. Barnum, One of America's Greatest Hucksters
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Barnum is Highly Relevant Today as the Lines Between Politics and Entertainment Appear Permanently Blurred
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