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鈥淭he Aviator and the Showman鈥� probes the question: Why did the fiercely independent flyer聽go along with the schemes of her promoter spouse?

The film version of bestseller 鈥淭he Thursday Murder Club鈥� has arrived with a stellar cast and a backdrop that plays like Hogwarts for older adults. But how does all the sleuthing and skullduggery stack up to the book?

The Monitor鈥檚 reviewers choose the best of August 2025, from novels and biographies to accounts of history.

鈥淪toryteller,鈥� a new biography by Leo Damrosch, arrives amid a brighter spotlight on Stevenson鈥檚 life and legacy.

The book business is booming in Syria: Authors and titles banned during the Assad family鈥檚 dictatorial rule are now legal and flying off the shelves.

鈥淭he Ring鈥� exudes dramatic power. Author Michael Downes tackles the controversies, while keeping the music front and center.聽聽

A number of seal species have been pulled back from near-extinction. But the animals are being blamed for attracting sharks to beaches and decimating fish stocks.聽

In 1975, Bruce Springsteen was about to be dropped by his record label. But the album 鈥淏orn to Run鈥� changed everything 鈥� for him and for rock.

In 鈥淭he Great Chinese Art Heist,鈥� Ralph Pezzullo links a string of recent robberies with misdeeds of the colonial past.

In 鈥淒avid Hockney,鈥� the artist鈥檚 work jumps off the page, pulsing with life. A retrospective and a book capture his vitality and inventiveness.