All Books
- 'Jackson, 1964' sheds light on some very dark chapters of US historyFor half a century, Calvin Trillin has been writing about race in America.
- 'The Bones of Grace': Anam's 鈥楤engal trilogy鈥 comes to a graceful closeThe final book of Tahmima Anam's 'Bengal trilogy' encompasses lost love, history, and ceaseless perseverance.聽
- Why I read a poem a dayReading at least one poem a day has been like an intellectual vitamin, giving me a small dose of literature even on busy days when I can鈥檛 get to the novels and nonfiction on my nightstand.
- 6 baseball books ripe for midseason reading Here are excerpts from six intriguing new baseball books.
- 4 light, breezy audio books for summer This month's audiobook are light, breezy, and humorous 鈥 in other words, vacation reads.
- 'The Romanovs' tells the gripping, tragic, fascinating story of Russia's tsarsThe focus of this enormous book is on character and the distorting effects of absolute power on both rulers and their advisors in each era, culminating in 'the often bizarre, daft and self-defeating trajectory of the last Romanovs.'
- 9 fascinating new sports books Here are excerpts from nine terrific new books about sports.
- How well do you know the lives of authors? Take the quiz
Sure, you've read the books. But what do you remember about the real-life stories of their authors? Take our quiz and find out.
- 'Dark Night' turns Batman into a real-life heroPaul Dini recounts his real-life journey out of darkness after a harrowing mugging with the help of a certain Caped Crusader.
- 'China's Future' predicts the protracted decline of China's Communist PartyChina watcher David Shambaugh once thought China's Communist Party would be able to adapt and survive, but he now says that without reform the Party has nowhere to go.聽
- 'The Way to the Spring' chronicles the frustration, heartbreak of Palestinians'This is our lives,' novelist and journalist Ben Ehrenreich hears over and over from residents of Nabi Saleh, a small town 25 minutes northwest of Ramallah in Palestine's West Bank.
- How the 1976 GOP convention set Reagan on the path to powerThe future president lost to Gerald Ford in nail-biter but emerged wiser and stronger.
- Bestselling books the week of 6/23/16, according to IndieBound* What's selling best at indie bookstores across the US?
- 'Living with a Dead Language' proves that Latin isn't really dead at allWhy one New York book publisher decided to spend her retirement years mastering the language of the Roman Empire.
- What Lee Smith can teach us about summer reading for kidsSmith read broadly and avidly as a child, and she seems to remember just about every book that she devoured.
- 'New England Bound' takes a serious look at an often overlooked storyFollow the sugar. Wendy Warren offers a feisty, intelligent account of the northern slave trade.
- 'Diane Arbus' examines a photographer who specialized in human mysteryLubow spends most of the book trying to convince us that Arbus was neither as perverse nor as tragic as she sometimes seemed.
- Marc Andreyko offers lighthearted thrills in 'Wonder Woman '77'In this graphic novel collection, DC Comics turns back the clock to the disco days of 1977 and the Wonder Woman TV show.
- 'A Hero of France' takes readers deep into Occupied EuropeAlan Furst's latest wartime thriller follows a member of the Resistance working to smuggle Allied pilots to safety.
- 'Barkskins' is Annie Proulx's greatest novel yetThe immense forests of North America are both the setting and the obsession of Proulx's challenging and intensely satisfying new novel.