Washington Post: Books
- The real villain of Mary Trump’s family tell-all isn’t Donald. It’s Fred.
Thursday - 07/09/2020 - 09:20 AMReview of ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man’ by Mary L. Trump
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Putin pushed aside the oligarchs and made Russia his own
Friday - 07/10/2020 - 08:00 AMAn alliance between security services and the mob aided his rise, Catherine Belton writes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The real villain of Mary Trump’s family tell-all isn’t Donald. It’s Fred.
Friday - 07/10/2020 - 06:47 AMReview of ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man’ by Mary L. Trump
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies
Thursday - 07/09/2020 - 11:28 AMThe 720-page book by the director of “Being John Malkovich” may be long but it’s never dull.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In ‘Becoming Duchess Goldblatt,’ a Twitter celebrity is ready for her close-up — but her creator remains a mystery
Wednesday - 07/08/2020 - 11:28 AM“Becoming Duchess Goldblatt” blends a fictional character’s signature wit with an author’s real grief.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - When writer Hache Carrillo died, the world discovered his true identity. What does that mean for his legacy?
Monday - 07/06/2020 - 11:23 AMNovelist H.G. Carrillo, like many authors before him, assumed a fabricated identity.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Three audiobooks to listen to now
Monday - 07/06/2020 - 04:33 AMAmong our picks: The finale to Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lacy Crawford’s ‘Notes on a Silencing’ is a haunting exploration of the systematic ways assault victims are ignored
Sunday - 07/05/2020 - 04:02 AMCrawford’s memoir looks back at her own assault at a prestigious boarding school.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Wuhan writer, on the ground at the center of the outbreak
Thursday - 07/02/2020 - 03:54 AMFang Fang describes battling censorship and misinformation about the virus in her Chinese city.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A psychologist finds herself at the poker table
Saturday - 07/04/2020 - 06:47 AMMaria Konnikova aims to enter the game’s biggest tournament. First she has to learn how to play.
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- Explaining the GOP’s mix of plutocrats and populists
Friday - 07/10/2020 - 08:00 AMDevotion to its donors pushed the party to the right, Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The prescient politics and policies of Jerry Brown
Friday - 07/10/2020 - 08:00 AMJim Newton’s biography argues that the California governor was on the cutting edge.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jim Carrey the actor-writer deconstructs Jim Carrey the character in ‘Memoirs and Misinformation’
Wednesday - 07/08/2020 - 11:01 AMRather than a straightforward memoir, the actor has delivered a baffling but mesmerizing novel about a fictionalized version of himself.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Washington Post hardcover bestsellers
Wednesday - 07/08/2020 - 10:07 AMA snapshot of popular books.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction
Tuesday - 07/07/2020 - 11:01 AMThe latest installment in Lock’s American Novels series brings together P.T. Barnum and Susan B. Anthony.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two new horror novels make sense of our current dystopian reality
Tuesday - 07/07/2020 - 08:00 AMJosh Malerman’s “Malorie” and Paul Tremblay’s “Survivor Song” are timely in ways the authors could never have expected.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - When writer Hache Carrillo died, the world discovered his true identity. What does that mean for his legacy?
Tuesday - 07/07/2020 - 08:47 AMNovelist H.G. Carrillo, like many authors before him, assumed a fabricated identity.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Camilla Läckberg’s ‘The Golden Cage’ is a psychological suspense story about vile people doing vile things
Monday - 07/06/2020 - 08:00 AMLäckberg has been dubbed “the Swedish Agatha Christie” — but Christie never wrote sex scenes like this.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What’s gone wrong in America? An outsider explains.
Friday - 07/03/2020 - 08:00 AMFormer Mexican diplomat Jorge G. Castañeda warns that the U.S. is starting to crumble.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Playwright David Adjmi’s stirring memoir, ‘Lot Six,’ explores the very meaning of identity
Tuesday - 06/30/2020 - 10:49 AMAdjmi was raised in a house where he had no choice but to fit in, which means he had no choice but to lie.
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- An undiscovered library: My wife’s books
Friday - 07/10/2020 - 08:00 AMOur literary tastes are very different. Then quarantine left me looking for something to read.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Local journalism has collapsed. Can anything save it?
Friday - 07/10/2020 - 08:00 AMThe Post’s Margaret Sullivan on the harm when local news is lost, and the efforts to revive it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In Lynn Steger Strong’s ‘Want,’ a woman collapses under the obligations of modern life
Thursday - 07/09/2020 - 03:18 AM‘Want’ grapples with a litany of contemporary social issues.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jim Carrey the actor-writer deconstructs Jim Carrey the character in ‘Memoirs and Misinformation’
Thursday - 07/09/2020 - 10:47 AMRather than a straightforward memoir, the actor has delivered a baffling but mesmerizing novel about a fictionalized version of himself.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Caravaggio’s ‘Cardsharps’ on Trial’ raises questions of artistic authenticity amid riveting courtroom drama
Wednesday - 07/08/2020 - 12:30 PMAnother new masterwork of scholarship is also available: G. Thomas Tanselle’s “Descriptive Bibliography.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction
Tuesday - 07/07/2020 - 06:47 PMThe latest installment in Lock’s American Novels series brings together P.T. Barnum and Susan B. Anthony.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Christopher Buckley’s ‘Make Russia Great Again’ is the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for
Monday - 07/06/2020 - 06:12 AMMany fiction writers have tried and failed to find comedy in the current administration. Finally, we have something to laugh about.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A psychologist finds herself at the poker table
Friday - 07/03/2020 - 08:00 AMMaria Konnikova aims to enter the game’s biggest tournament. First she has to learn how to play.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - While offensive TV shows get pulled, problematic books are still inspiring debate and conversation
Friday - 07/03/2020 - 06:00 AMA look at how people have engaged with “Huck Finn” and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” over time offers a snapshot of who we were and are.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Washington Post paperback bestsellers
Wednesday - 07/01/2020 - 09:11 AMA snapshot of popular books.
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