In his book “American Oasis,” Kyle Paoletta explores the region’s environmental and cultural struggles and what they mean for the rest of the nation. In Adam Ross’s long-awaited second ...

New editions of books by John Dickson Carr, Tom Mead and Edna Sherry remind me why I loved them the first time.

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In a 1939 essay, the critic Philip Rahv argued that there have been two main types in American literature: the solemn and semi-clerical, which he associates with Henry James, and the exuberant ...

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The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose by Jonas Olofsson. Mariner, 2025 ($28) As COVID spread across the world in early 2020, people began to report ...

Now he’s paying it forward. The Book Review Podcast: Each week, top authors and critics talk about the latest news in the literary world. Listen here.

Mr. Kim’s book is nothing like Walter Isaacson’s portraits of tech geniuses Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. It is more prosaic, focusing on the technical and human ground war of building a company.

Kengor said the disparity between the audience and critics' reviews reminded him of the 1980 ... Kengor was interested in the idea, but suggested his book "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the ...

Time for my annual roundup of my favorite books. My list was abbreviated this ... health rest after nearly a quarter century of writing reviews. I had a sizable pile when I temporarily pulled ...

Selected Amazon Reviews, it turns out, is exactly what its title suggests: a collection of opinions both of consumer goods, and of books and films from the fringes of the avant-garde to the well ...

Three books stand out for me this year; they are all in different ways about complexity. Lauren Benton’s They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton University Press) explores the ...