Have you ever pondered what life was like in 19th century America? The boulevards were full of horse carriages, towns were little, and life moved gradually. Chronicled fiction books set…
Sentiment has been a foundation of writing for centuries, capturing hearts with stories of cherish, misfortune, and yearning. From the slow-burning pressure of period shows to clearing adore stories that…
Teens love an excellent mystery—the fun of fixing a puzzle, the suspense of surprising twists, and the satisfaction of the truth. Whether your youngster is an avid reader or simply…
IntroductionDEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE President Barack Obama faced a momentous choice. By the summer of 2016, he knew that Russia was interfering in America’s upcoming election. He also knew that Vladimir Putin,…
Jim Carrey is not doing well at all. At the start of the novel “Memoirs and Misinformation,” we find Carrey, its protagonist, in the midst of an existential crisis, crushed by…
It’s January 1986. What do you do if you’re a 12-year-old girl who feels invisible and longs to be a space shuttle commander? In Erin Entrada Kelly’s WE DREAM OF…
There are so many upsetting things about the assault Lacy Crawford suffered in 1990, when she was 15 and a junior at St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire, but one…
White Whale To the Editor: Carl Safina’s essay in the June 14 issue, “Melville’s Warning,” brought back memories of my graduate school class on American authors. I had never read Melville’s masterpiece;…
During a normal week, Jordan Pavlin, the editorial director at Knopf, seldom ate at her desk. Depending on the day, she might be meeting with literary agents over lunch, catching…
“If you’re silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it,” wrote Zora Neale Hurston in her 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” Throughout this country’s…
Jean Raspail, an award-winning author best known for “The Camp of the Saints,” a novel that envisions a takeover of the Western world by immigrants from developing countries and that…
Sally Banes, an influential dance historian and critic whose books include the indispensable “Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance,” died on June 14 in Philadelphia. She was 69. Her death, at a…
