Tag: Book Reviews

Mark Helprin. (Courtesy Mark Helprin)

A narrator speaking to his dead beloved

Daniel Ross Goodman · June 14, 2026 7:00 am

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Crooks and communists in James Ellroy’s latest epic

Mark Hemingway · June 14, 2026 6:45 am

Harold Bloom in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2011. (Thomas Iannaccone/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)

Harold Bloom and his poet-correspondents

Malcolm Forbes · June 14, 2026 6:00 am

Greek history Sparta Athens

Go tell the Spartans: Two books on the conflicts that embroiled the Greek world

Varad Mehta · June 14, 2026 5:45 am

Maggie O'Farrell in Windsor, England. (David Levenson/Getty Images)

Maggie O’Farrell’s land before time

Diane Scharper · June 14, 2026 5:00 am

A Time to Be Born By Dawn Powell book

The pointing of a manicured finger

Kara Kennedy · June 13, 2026 6:00 am

President Ulysses S. Grant and Emperor Pedro II of Brazil switch on the Corliss Centennial Engine during the Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia. (Phas/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

America, as it was at 100

Michael Taube · June 13, 2026 5:45 am

Louisiana visions, through wrought-iron scrollwork

Clare Coffey · June 9, 2026 5:15 am

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The true story of rebel gamblers

Alexander Kaplan · June 7, 2026 6:30 am

14 amendment citizenship books

Reading (and Misreading) the 14th Amendment

Conn Carroll · June 6, 2026 5:30 am

Jill Biden book

Jill Biden: A Senate letter could’ve ‘actually killed’ Joe

Sydney Topf · June 2, 2026 12:00 am

Statues of Soviet Leader Josef Stalin. Concept Of Nostalgia For Soviet Union. Miniature Bronze Figurines Of Joseph Stalin.

Onward, Stalinist soldiers

Carson Becker · June 1, 2026 6:45 am