Living as an introvert in a world that likes loud voices can feel hard. Many books promise to fix you. But you do not need fixing. The right books help…
Look. I have wasted a lot of money on self-help books. Some of them sit on my shelf. Unread. Some I read but forgot the next day. A few actually…
Have you ever pondered what life was like in 19th century America? The boulevards were full of horse carriages, towns were little, and life moved gradually. Chronicled fiction books set…
Eduard Limonov, a Russian writer and political activist whose chameleonlike career included living in exile in New York and leading Russia’s ultra-right National Bolshevik Party, died on Tuesday in Moscow.…
Danny Caine, owner of The Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kan., thought the store had weathered the worst of obstacles when it managed to stay in business after a giant…
In what might be considered a golden age of content, the true crime genre stands out as one that is consistently captivating audiences in every dark corner of the cultural…
A sweeping reconsideration of the complexities of Emancipation and a biography of the nearly forgotten mid-20th-century urban planner who reshaped Boston and other cities have won this year’s Bancroft Prize,…
PHYSICS FOR POETS Brian Greene is to science as Michael Lewis is to the financial world: He distills mountains of complicated information to a manageable size without dumbing it down.…
The author, most recently, of the novel “The Glass Hotel” often gives up on reading that disappoints her: “Life’s too short to spend time with books that you don’t love.” What…
If I ran a bookstore, I’d prep for Valentine’s Day by stocking up on a genuine throwback: RETURN TO ROMANCE! THE STRANGE LOVE STORIES OF OGDEN WHITNEY (New York Review…
Distant Figures To the Editor: Book reviews are frequently accompanied by striking illustrations that are far from simply decorative, and speak volumes of their own. The drawing by Rachel Levit Ruiz of…
“I liked the neatness of those times,” says Prof. Garrett Adams, the ruminative protagonist of Laurel Brett’s clever debut novel, “The Schrödinger Girl.” Those times are the 1950s, a decade…
