Washington Post: Books
- For some authors, inspiration arrives in high definition. Others see nothing at all.
Thursday - 01/20/2022 - 01:04 PMGillian Flynn, Carmen Maria Machado and other authors discuss their creative process.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jonathan Evison’s ‘Small World’ feels like a big statement about America
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 07:00 AMIn "Small World," short chapters and sheer eventfulness keep the story chugging along.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Greta Garbo’s onscreen talent, complex relationships — and why she still fascinates
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 08:00 AMRobert Gottlieb's portrait of the eccentric actress explores her conflicting needs for companionship and privacy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - For some authors, inspiration arrives in high definition. Others see nothing at all.
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 12:47 PMGillian Flynn, Carmen Maria Machado and other authors discuss their creative process.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Washington Post hardcover bestsellers
Tuesday - 01/18/2022 - 05:22 PMA snapshot of popular books.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iraj Pezeshkzad, celebrated Iranian satirist and author of ‘My Uncle Napoleon,’ dies
Tuesday - 01/18/2022 - 11:45 PMHis 1973 novel "My Uncle Napoleon," affectionately skewering the foibles of his countrymen and women in the decades before the Islamic Revolution, became one of the most phenomenally popular works of modern Persian literature.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In praise of Henry Kissinger’s Middle East legacy
Friday - 01/14/2022 - 08:00 AMKissinger's realpolitik approach brought a measure of stability and led to Israel's survival, Martin Indyk argues.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Art reflects how we see women; now women are influencing how we see art
Friday - 01/14/2022 - 08:00 AMArt historian Catherine McCormack reflects on women as art subjects, makers and curators.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Washington Post paperback bestsellers
Tuesday - 01/11/2022 - 04:44 PMA snapshot of popular books.
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Wednesday - 01/12/2022 - 12:47 PMA snapshot of popular books.
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- On TikTok, crying is encouraged. Colleen Hoover’s books get the job done.
Thursday - 01/20/2022 - 06:00 AMThe best-selling author of “It Ends With Us” has struck a chord with her emotional novels.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Inside the ideological divide between the Fed’s board and its bankers
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 08:00 AMChristopher Leonard focuses on Thomas Hoenig, onetime president of the Kansas City Fed, to explore the policy implications.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler: A Marine hero who saw himself as a ‘racketeer for capitalism’
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 08:23 AMButler earned fame and respect fighting America's imperialist wars -- and came to regret his role, Jonathan M. Katz writes.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Science fiction — please, let’s not call it ‘sci-fi’ — is more than just a reaction to the present
Wednesday - 01/19/2022 - 11:00 AMNew books and publications delve into the rich and evolving worlds of speculative fiction.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How to make it rich as a bad art friend
Tuesday - 01/18/2022 - 08:57 AMAndrew Lipstein's "Last Resort" captures our tenuous ownership of life experiences and the vampiric practice of fiction writing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How to make it rich as a bad art friend
Tuesday - 01/18/2022 - 04:47 PMAndrew Lipstein's "Last Resort" captures our tenuous ownership of life experiences and the vampiric practice of fiction writing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A mother’s quest for genetic answers about her son’s mysterious ailments
Friday - 01/14/2022 - 08:00 AMTaylor Harris writes of the challenges — and the love — surrounding her child.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The enduring obstacles and imbalances facing Black athletes and coaches
Friday - 01/14/2022 - 08:00 AMPost columnist John Feinstein explores the dynamics of race in professional baseball, basketball and football.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jason Reynolds delivers a powerful message in just three sentences
Tuesday - 01/11/2022 - 10:00 AMReynolds and Jason Griffin have created a masterful collage of words and art that search for hope amid difficult times.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring?
Wednesday - 01/12/2022 - 02:47 PMHere are the 66 books I’d take to my “desert island.”
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- Searching for Anne Frank’s betrayer, finding a moral dilemma
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 02:32 PMIn a new book, a cold-case team identifies a Jewish man as the likely culprit, stirring questions about culpability in extreme circumstances.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - When communism crumbled, so did an 11-year-old’s reality
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 08:00 AMLea Ypi recalls her childhood in Albania and the nation's swift, disorienting shift away from communism.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Zora Neale Hurston was once forgotten. A new book reminds us why her voice must be heard.
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 08:00 AMZora Neale Hurston did not mince words about race and gender. Now we can read them, unfiltered.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On TikTok, crying is encouraged. Colleen Hoover’s books get the job done.
Friday - 01/21/2022 - 02:47 AMThe best-selling author of “It Ends With Us” has struck a chord with her emotional novels.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Science fiction — please, let’s not call it ‘sci-fi’ — is more than just a reaction to the present
Thursday - 01/20/2022 - 12:47 AMNew books and publications delve into the rich and evolving worlds of speculative fiction.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Harry Potter without Jim Dale? Impossible. Here are other audiobook series enhanced by narrators.
Sunday - 01/16/2022 - 08:00 AMA narrator can make or break the listening experience. Over several related novels, they can become friend (or foe).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How the courts quietly made it harder to sue over government wrongdoing
Friday - 01/14/2022 - 08:00 AMAziz Huq traces the decades-long erosion of the right to seek redress when government officials violate the Constitution.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Years before Watergate, a young Carl Bernstein fell in love with local journalism
Friday - 01/14/2022 - 08:00 AMThe longtime journalist recounts the oddball characters and vibrant newsroom of the Washington Star.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - You’re done with it all. You head for the hills. What books do you bring?
Wednesday - 01/12/2022 - 07:00 AMHere are the 66 books I’d take to my “desert island.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In ‘Mouth to Mouth,’ a Tom Ripley-like storyteller spins a mesmerizing yarn
Tuesday - 01/11/2022 - 06:00 AMAntoine Wilson's novel is loaded with fateful encounters, hidden agendas, shrouded identities, adulterous betrayals and brushes with death.
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