Books take us to places we may never visit. A few take us into the future, whereas others carry us back into the past. Verifiable wrongdoing fiction books are extraordinary…
Romance is the heart beat of human emotion, and few matters capture it higher than a nicely-written romantic novel. For newbie readers, entering into the world of romantic fiction is…
How To Stay Sustainable With Producing Paper Books? Examining environmentally friendly book printing demonstrates the significant influence the publishing industry has on the environment. Offices consume a lot of paper—more…
SUNCATCHER By Romesh Gunesekera In Romesh Gunesekera’s 1994 novel “Reef,” we catch a fleeting glimpse of a boy named Ravi, who lives next door to the book’s protagonist, Triton. Ravi introduces Triton…
WHEN I HIT YOUOr, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young WifeBy Meena Kandasamy In Meena Kandasamy’s “When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young…
You said your first words to me and you also stood up for the first time when I was there. I would fly to New York every week when your mother…
Prologue“We Will Write the History Now” The beast, long lurking in plain sight while the Allies stood idle, pounced at last. On May 10, 1940, wave after wave of German bombers,…
In a 1924 editorial headlined “A Familiar Form of Madness,” this newspaper expressed its disdain for that vulgar new entertainment, that lowly diversion for idle minds, that pointless display of…
Authors are just like the rest of us — they like to soothe their anxieties by losing themselves in the pages of a beloved book. Here are some of…
OPERATION CHASTISEThe RAF’s Most Brilliant Attack of World War IIBy Max Hastings “Operation Chastise,” about the so-called Dambusters raid, carries the subtitle “The RAF’s Most Brilliant Attack of World War II.”…
THE LUCKY STARBy William T. Vollmann Across three decades and two dozen volumes of immersive fiction and nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has traversed landscapes of impossible beauty and extreme degradation, returning…
Recent books of interest: A BEAUTIFUL CRIME, by Christopher Bollen. (Harper/HarperCollins, $28.99.) In this elegant crime thriller, a couple of New Yorkers contrive to sell counterfeit antiques to an unsuspecting American…
