Washington Post: Books
- The story of the Black church, from the spiritual to the political to the personal
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 08:00 AMHenry Louis Gates Jr. offers a sweeping narrative that goes beyond gospel music.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Old mysteries and adventure stories deliver a dose of Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 11:00 AMThere are nostalgic pleasures aplenty in stories published in 1930s pulp magazines or dramatized in 1940s radio programs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Old mysteries and adventure stories deliver a dose Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action
Wednesday - 02/24/2021 - 08:47 PMThere are nostalgic pleasures aplenty in stories published in 1930s pulp magazines or dramatized in 1940s radio programs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary citadel of San Francisco, dies at 101
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 06:47 PMThe acclaimed poet was longtime proprietor of City Lights, the San Francisco bookstore and avant-garde publishing house that catapulted the Beat Generation to fame.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In ‘The Committed,’ Viet Thanh Nguyen continues his Pulitzer Prize-winning story
Monday - 02/22/2021 - 06:28 AMThe follow-up to “The Sympathizer” finds a former Vietnamese spy working as a drug dealer in Paris.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In India, the complicated truth behind the killing of two teenagers
Saturday - 02/20/2021 - 10:47 AMSonia Faleiro’s investigation illuminates the role of “honor” in the lives of the nation’s girls.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What made the civil rights movement successful — and what came next
Friday - 02/19/2021 - 12:25 PMTwo books summarize the struggle, its lessons and its costs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chang-rae Lee’s ‘My Year Abroad,’ is a sweeping, twisty tale of love, family and hope
Thursday - 02/18/2021 - 08:00 AMLee’s sixth novel follows the wild travails of a college dropout.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘True Believer’ tries to capture Stan Lee. It isn’t easy.
Thursday - 02/18/2021 - 02:47 PM“Stan Lee’s story is where objective truth goes to die,” writes biographer Abraham Riesman.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - James Ridgeway, muckraking journalist of the old school, dies at 84
Tuesday - 02/16/2021 - 08:39 AMHe trained his investigative powers on the automotive and energy industries, far-right hate groups and the U.S. prison system.
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- In ‘All Girls,’ a decades-old sexual assault at a boarding school prompts a vigilante to take action
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 01:43 AMEmily Layden’s debut follows a parade of characters at a school that’s reckoning with its past mistakes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Old mysteries and adventure stories deliver a dose of Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 12:47 AMThere are nostalgic pleasures aplenty in stories published in 1930s pulp magazines or dramatized in 1940s radio programs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Let’s talk about ‘Starship Troopers’ and other science fiction and fantasy novels that wowed us on screen
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 12:17 PMMany of our favorite books are better as films. Other times, it’s better to stick with the book.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - From Charlie Hill to the 1491s, ‘We Had a Little Real Estate Problem’ gives Native American comedians their due
Monday - 02/22/2021 - 11:57 AMKliph Nesteroff’s book shows the importance and influence that proper representation in the media can have.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In India, the complicated truth behind the killing of two teenagers
Friday - 02/19/2021 - 12:12 PMSonia Faleiro’s investigation illuminates the role of “honor” in the lives of the nation’s girls.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A fed-up judge condemns the inequities in America’s legal system
Friday - 02/19/2021 - 12:14 PMJed S. Rakoff is frustrated that white-collar criminals go free while the indigent do time.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What Assad’s chemical weapons really accomplished
Friday - 02/19/2021 - 08:00 AMThe arsenal was less about mass murder and more about terror, Joby Warrick writes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘True Believer’ tries to capture Stan Lee. It isn’t easy.
Thursday - 02/18/2021 - 08:35 AM“Stan Lee’s story is where objective truth goes to die,” writes biographer Abraham Riesman.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Washington Post hardcover bestsellers
Tuesday - 02/16/2021 - 04:22 AMA snapshot of popular books.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Talib Kweli’s ‘Vibrate Higher’ is a plain-spoken striver’s tale
Tuesday - 02/16/2021 - 09:00 AMKweli’s message-driven but less popular brand of rap is one of the preoccupations of his swift, sturdy memoir.
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- Two centuries after John Keats’s death, his famous odes are still sparking new discussions
Thursday - 02/25/2021 - 12:19 PMAnahid Nersessian’s “Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse” is a book that moves in personal and unexpected directions.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Washington Post paperback bestsellers
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 04:14 AMA snapshot of popular books.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, literary citadel of San Francisco, dies at 101
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 01:26 AMThe acclaimed poet was longtime proprietor of City Lights, the San Francisco bookstore and avant-garde publishing house that catapulted the Beat Generation to fame.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The future of Star Wars has arrived, and it takes place hundreds of years in the past
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 08:00 AMIn the Star Wars universe, the High Republic is the stuff of legend. Five writers are responsible for telling the story.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - From Charlie Hill to the 1491s, ‘We Had a Little Real Estate Problem’ gives Native American comedians their due
Tuesday - 02/23/2021 - 10:47 AMKliph Nesteroff’s book shows the importance and influence that proper representation in the media can have.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Egos, ulcers and misbehavior at ‘60 Minutes’
Friday - 02/19/2021 - 12:21 PMEx-producer Ira Rosen tells some personal stories from his long career behind the camera.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - He escaped a lynch mob, then sued its members in court
Friday - 02/19/2021 - 12:37 PMBen Montgomery on a Black man’s quest for justice in Jim Crow Kentucky.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Chang-rae Lee’s ‘My Year Abroad,’ is a sweeping, twisty tale of love, family and hope
Thursday - 02/18/2021 - 12:47 PMLee’s sixth novel follows the wild travails of a college dropout.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Sybille Bedford’ is a gossipy appreciation of an oft-overlooked literary great
Wednesday - 02/17/2021 - 02:00 AMSelina Hastings’s new biography delves into the life, loves and books of a brilliant, charismatic writer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Yes, audiobooks are books. But too many voices can muddle the experience.
Monday - 02/15/2021 - 07:00 AMFull-cast productions can turn an audiobook into a confusing radio play.
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