Tag: Book Reviews

(Getty Images) Troubles Ireland Britain history

Troubling stories

Diane Scharper · January 30, 2026 4:18 am

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Capitol Hill in 2009. (Harry Hamburg/AP)

A character like Harry Reid

Carson Becker · January 30, 2026 4:15 am

Punk rock music culture

Nothing’s shocking

Chris R. Morgan · January 23, 2026 4:38 am

Queensbridge Houses, the largest public housing development in North America, located in Long Island City in Queens, New York, 1938. (Getty Images)

How public housing projects made life worse for the urban poor

Anthony Paletta · January 23, 2026 4:27 am

Albert Einstein, Oct. 18, 1930. (AP Photo)

The hunt for the killers of Einstein’s family

Malcolm Forbes · January 23, 2026 4:22 am

Scott Adams.

Faith, Freedom, and Self-Reliance

Remembering Scott Adams’s best work, the Dilbert animated series

Harry Khachatrian · January 19, 2026 6:00 am

J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship (1840), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The beginning of the end of slavery

Michael M. Rosen · January 16, 2026 4:12 am

The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1-3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How we remember Gettysburg

Francis Dearnley · January 16, 2026 4:08 am

James I (1566-1625) on engraving from 1846. King of Scots as James VI during 1567-1625, and King of England and Ireland as James I during 1603-1625. Engraved after a painting from Paul Van Somer. (Getty Images)

The king who would be man

Beth Bailey · January 16, 2026 4:00 am

Atomic bomb explosion over Nagasaki, 1945. (trumanlibrary.gov)

A Nuke Hope: Review of ‘The Nuclear Age’ by Serhii Plokhy

Andrew Fagal · January 9, 2026 3:57 am

Bank Spaces Books 0114 magazine

The first draft of cultural history: Review of ‘Blank Space’ by W. David Marx

Derek Robertson · January 9, 2026 3:44 am

David Mamet (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Mamet’s quite worried sigh of relief

Jack Baruth · January 9, 2026 3:40 am