Tag: Book Reviews

A vandalized statue of Christopher Columbus is seen at Bayfront Park in Miami on June 11, 2020. (Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

In Columbus’s wake

Varad Mehta · October 17, 2025 4:17 am

Getty Images shadow ticket

Has Thomas Pynchon still got it?

Derek Robertson · October 17, 2025 3:56 am

American and Israeli flag pair on desk.

Courage, Strength, and Optimism

America’s fraught history with antisemitism

Mark Judge · October 14, 2025 6:00 am

People react as they gather to watch a live broadcast of Israeli hostages released from Gaza.

Beltway Confidential

High school students should learn what happened to the hostages

Elliott Broidy · October 14, 2025 5:00 am

An oil painting of Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist Robert Louis Stevenson.

Review of ‘Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson’ by Leo Damrosch

Diane Scharper · October 10, 2025 1:05 am

Cars drive along a highway as a cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blankets most of the Caribbean Sea.

Cartel man

Paul Davis · October 10, 2025 12:10 am

French aristocrat Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette arrives to a hero’s welcome in New York City for a tour of the United States on Aug. 15, 1824. (Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Lafayette’s tour of a transforming America

Carl Paulus · October 9, 2025 11:35 pm

Church of Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey. (Getty Images)

A world tour of Christianity

Micah Mattix · October 3, 2025 2:30 am

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . .: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life By Steven Pinker Scribner 384 pp., $30.00

Steven Pinker on the games people play

Jesse Adams · October 3, 2025 1:10 am

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara points to a map of Vietnam during a press conference in Washington, D.C., on April 26, 1965. (Marion S Trikosko/PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

At war with Bob McNamara

Jack Baruth · October 3, 2025 12:20 am

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Dan Brown’s conspiracy of success

Nic Rowan · September 26, 2025 3:05 am

Woody Allen in Barcelona, Spain, 2023. (Lorena Sopena/Europa Press via Getty Images)

The debut novel by up-and-coming writer Woody Allen

Peter Tonguette · September 26, 2025 12:05 am