Happy holidays! As we do at the end of each year, The Review asked a dozen of our contributors to recommend scholarly books that thrilled, surprised, challenged, and delighted them. This year the ...

People are hiring personal biographers. An alternative is to use generative AI to aid in devising your biography. There are ...

These true stories range from a "meow-moir" of a Siberian cat to an exploration of what U.S. presidents do after the White ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

Spend the whole weekend in bed." This type of reading is best suited to classics—and it doesn't feel right, in our humble opinion, to be reading books set in scorching hot summer weather in the ...

As long as a book does not include lies and inaccuracies, fresh and original biographies can often result without a subject’s participation. I spoke with Moore about the group, the book and the ...

To be really - even if you narrow it down to just biographies and memoirs, we've got more than, like, 60 titles... CHANG: Oh, come on. LIMBONG: ...On the list, right. But... CHANG: (Laughter). LIMBONG ...

The book traces the writer’s experience with ... This is the final volume in a trilogy of what Deborah Levy calls her “living autobiography” – living, because they’re written in the ...

I’m writing this book before my memories of half a century ... Robert Hardman's new biography takes readers inside the first year of Charles's reign, from September 2022 to 2023.

An Image of My Name Enters America, by Lucy Ives 2024 was the year of the breakup book; you couldn’t encounter the new-releases table at the bookstore without running into a flurry of wonderful ...

The number of neutrons changes over time during radioactive decay, making the ratio of different isotopes in a sample a good way to measure how old that sample is. Related: Moon Surprisingly ...