Tag: Book Reviews

Salman Rushdie (Andres Kudacki/AP)

Salman Rushdie pulls up a chair

Gustav Jönsson · January 2, 2026 3:35 am

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An essayist who remembers

Hugo Gurdon · January 2, 2026 3:20 am

Members of the Mexican armed forces, dressed in revolutionary-era attire, participate in the Civic-Military Parade commemorating the 115th Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution in the Zocalo of Mexico City, Mexico, on Nov. 20. (Jose Luis Torales/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

A sprawling history of Mexico

Kyle Sammin · January 2, 2026 3:15 am

J.R.R. Tolkien on Dec. 2, 1955. (Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

How Tolkien built worlds

Diane Scharper · December 19, 2025 4:22 am

Former director of the Mossad Meir Dagan on March 7, 2015 (JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Mossad man

Sean Durns · December 19, 2025 2:53 am

The proclamation of the German Republic in Berlin on November 9, 1918, marking the beginning of the Weimar Republic at the end of World War I.

False echoes of Weimar

Andrew Bernard · December 19, 2025 2:47 am

Artwork by Tom Jung created for the 1977 movie "Star Wars."

Equality, Not Elitism

Star Wars is a spent force. It’s time to say goodbye

Mark Judge · December 17, 2025 5:00 am

Books on a desk with book shelves in the background.

Don’t fall for the ‘banned books’ con

David Harsanyi · December 12, 2025 2:00 pm

A voter marks his ballot at a polling place i

Lies, damned lies, and polarization

Brad Pearce · December 12, 2025 3:49 am

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You say you want a revolution

Varad Mehta · December 12, 2025 3:44 am

(Getty Images) Your Name Here

Helen Dewitt’s experiment

Derek Robertson · December 12, 2025 3:37 am

Inside Scoop: Gen Z socialists, Christmas reading list, Utah redistricting shuffle

Amy DeLaura · December 10, 2025 5:00 am