Washington Post: Books
- Novelist James McBride talks about race, politics — and his new book
Tuesday - 09/26/2017 - 09:24 AM‘I do want to illuminate the lives of African Americans. . . . The men aren’t all thugs, and the women aren’t all fat.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Is Trump mentally ill? Or is America? Psychiatrists weigh in.
Friday - 09/22/2017 - 02:26 PMIs Trump mentally ill? Or is America? Psychiatrists weigh in.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - An elephant who texted for help and other tales of animals on the move
Friday - 09/22/2017 - 02:26 PM‘Where the Animals Go’ is a fascinating look at new ways animals are monitored in the wild — and what it means for us and them.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hillary Clinton’s memoir sells 300,000 copies in its first week
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 01:51 PM‘What Happened’ also breaks record for digital audio sales for Simon & Schuster
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stephen King and Owen King imagine a world where women aren’t woke
Tuesday - 09/19/2017 - 01:36 PMThe horror master and his son reinvent a Brothers Grimm tale in ‘Sleeping Beauties.’
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 9 short-story collections we can’t wait to read this fall
Monday - 09/18/2017 - 01:13 PMNew stories by Tom Hanks, Karen Shepard and even Kurt Vonnegut.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Imaginative optimism about life in America after Trump
Friday - 09/15/2017 - 06:36 PME.J. Dionne, Norman Ornstein, and Thomas Mann believe in a new sense of citizenship.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The truth behind the legend of Lou Gehrig
Friday - 09/15/2017 - 06:36 PMRichard Sandomir’s “The Pride of the Yankees” examines the movie that made Gehrig immortal
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Dangerous Boobies’: One woman’s experience ‘breaking up with’ her breasts
Friday - 09/15/2017 - 12:31 PMIn her memoir, Caitlin Brodnick tells a relatable tale of facing the potential of breast cancer at a young age.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith reports for duty
Thursday - 09/14/2017 - 12:21 PMThe Pulitzer Prize-winning writer hopes to expand the national conversation about poetry.
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- Fighting hard — and losing — the gender discrimination battle in the tech world
Friday - 09/22/2017 - 08:30 PMEllen Pao recounts her tech industry life and the hurdles to changing the guys’ game
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What did Maurice Sendak know about the wild things that no one else did?
Friday - 09/22/2017 - 02:26 PMIn ‘There’s a Mystery There,’ Jonathan Cott seeks the key to the great artist’s life and work.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why do nations ignore international rules against attacking other states
Friday - 09/22/2017 - 02:26 PMOona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro explore of the history of efforts to prevent wars.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Bluebird, Bluebird’: No black-and-white answers in this tale of race and murder
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 01:51 PMAttica Locke, a former writer for Fox’s ‘Empire,’ has a sharp eye for Southern culture.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Celeste Ng grapples with both sides of the debate over interracial adoptions
Monday - 09/18/2017 - 07:19 PM‘Little Fires Everywhere,’ by Celeste Ng.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A middle-aged children’s book writer who comes undone
Monday - 09/18/2017 - 01:13 PMThe crime novel “Unraveling Oliver” is a fascinating study in character.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sharapova, a tennis star with hyper focus and tough love
Friday - 09/15/2017 - 06:36 PMMaria Sharapova reveals a her scrappy, determined childhood and career in memoir.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Longmire’s creator explains why we’re so fascinated with the American West
Friday - 09/15/2017 - 06:36 PMCraig Johnson on the solace of open spaces in our techie world.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stop dissecting a poem as if it were a dead frog
Thursday - 09/14/2017 - 06:24 PMIn ‘Why Poetry,’ Matthew Zapruder says we have to forget what we learned in school
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Art Garfunkel opens up, and what spills out is a fascinating mess
Thursday - 09/14/2017 - 12:15 AMGarfunkel’s memoir “What Is It All but Luminous” reveals in unexpected ways.
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- The American presidency: a job just too huge for any leader
Friday - 09/22/2017 - 08:30 PMJeremi Suri surveys the presidents’ growing power and inability to meet expectations.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Washington Post bestsellers: September 24, 2017
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How free should free speech be on campus?
Friday - 09/22/2017 - 02:26 PMErwin Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman believe regulation of speech is dangerous.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In the golden age of spy fiction, our coolest heroes were shaken, not stirred
Wednesday - 09/20/2017 - 01:51 PMIn “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” Mike Ripley traces the 20th-century boom in British thrillers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Washington Post Bestsellers
Monday - 09/18/2017 - 07:19 PMWashington Post Bestsellers
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Washington Post bestsellers: September 17, 2017
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Vietnam War’s ambiguities through lives of those profoundly shaped by it
Friday - 09/15/2017 - 06:36 PMGeoffrey C. War and Ken Burns offer portraits in companion volume to documentary series.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hillary’s consolation prize: a No. 1 bestselling book
Friday - 09/15/2017 - 06:36 PMWe ask a sampling of writers: Would you rather be president or a No. 1 bestselling author?
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Alice McDermott’s new novel begins with suicide and culminates in murder
Thursday - 09/14/2017 - 06:24 PM“The Ninth Hour” is a masterful story about the shadow cast over several generations.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dear Britain, please take your Booker Prize back home.
Wednesday - 09/13/2017 - 06:13 PMWhat we lost when the U.K. literary award loosened its eligibility rules to include Americans.
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