Sentiment has been a foundation of writing for centuries, capturing hearts with stories of cherish, misfortune, and yearning. From the slow-burning pressure of period shows to clearing adore stories that…
Teens love an excellent mystery—the fun of fixing a puzzle, the suspense of surprising twists, and the satisfaction of the truth. Whether your youngster is an avid reader or simply…
Introduction Who Was The Author Who Won The Children's Book Award? Kids' writing has a mystical approach to significantly shaping youthful personalities. These books show examples, flash creative mind, and make…
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…
HOME MAKINGBy Lee Matalone194 pp. HarperPerennial/HarperCollins. Paper, $15.99. Image “Home making” is a phrase so fraught with political and social overtones that before opening this book I went to Google for a…
Telling the story of Frank Smith, a prisoner who was a central figure in the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York, was a life’s mission…
GOLDEN GATES Fighting for Housing in AmericaBy Conor Dougherty In California, more than 100,000 people sleep on the streets. The tent cities in Los Angeles’s skid row have distinct neighborhoods, and…
