Washington Post: Books
- How success ruined the West
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 08:00 AMRoss Douthat diagnoses the cause of society’s stagnation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - All the presidents’ books
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 08:00 AMCraig Fehrman details the publishing history of America’s authors in chief.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Washington biography that skips his manliness and reveals the man
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 08:00 AMAlexis Coe shuns the one-sided approach of many male biographers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In ‘Disfigured,’ a writer explores the damaging ways fairy tales shape our view of the world — and ourselves
Thursday - 02/27/2020 - 08:00 AMDiagnosed with cerebral palsy as a child, Amanda Leduc saw plenty of disabled characters in fairy tales, but none she wanted to identify with.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Going Out Guide: Upcoming events
Thursday - 02/27/2020 - 11:30 AMGet the latest on readings, signings and author appearances in the D.C. area.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Profiles in Thinking About Courage: inside ‘A Warning’ by Anonymous
Wednesday - 11/13/2019 - 03:45 AMProfiles in Thinking About Courage: inside ‘A Warning’ by Anonymous
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - First published in 1924, ‘Still She Wished for Company’ makes for a delicious, if bittersweet, Valentine’s Day treat
Wednesday - 02/12/2020 - 02:00 AMThe novel, which enters the public domain this year, is one of the pioneering works of paranormal or “time-slip” romance.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A.D. Miller’s ‘Independence Square’ imagines how one diplomat tried to secretly manage Ukraine’s revolution
Tuesday - 02/18/2020 - 01:21 AMMiller draws on his experience as a foreign correspondent to re-create the turmoil in Kiev in 2004.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Leila Aboulela’s ‘Bird Summons’ takes the traditional road trip novel down a new path
Tuesday - 02/25/2020 - 01:58 PMThree Muslim women cast off domestic duties and travel into the Scottish highlands.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘The Professor and the Parson’ tries to make sense of a narcissistic con man who fooled nearly everyone
Wednesday - 02/26/2020 - 10:00 AMAdam Sisman‘s sprightly new book follows a 20th-century fantasist who styled himself, variously, as a professor, doctor and reverend.
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- For Native Americans, a history of pain — and reasons for hope
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 08:00 AMA photo of an abused Native girl frames Byron Dorgan’s account of struggle and survival.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Winston Churchill and the power of English myth
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 08:00 AMIn his history of the Blitz, Erik Larson buys into some of the British leader’s propaganda.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Coronavirus feels like something out of a sci-fi novel. Here’s how writers have imagined similar scenarios.
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 10:00 AM“The Stand” and “The Andromeda Strain” are just a few of the books that envision mass infection
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Don’t be afraid to let children read graphic novels. They’re real books.
Thursday - 02/27/2020 - 10:14 AMA librarian makes the case: Kids’ connection to comics helps create lifelong readers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The inherently, intrinsically and inevitably flawed case for American nationalism
Thursday - 10/31/2019 - 10:00 AMReview of 'The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free' by Rich Lowry
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Donald Trump Jr.’s ‘Triggered’ reads like a campaign book for 2024
Friday - 01/03/2020 - 11:00 AMDonald Trump Jr.’s ‘Triggered’ reads like a campaign book for 2024
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Stationery stores are in trouble, but our love for Valentine’s Day cards burns hotter than ever
Tuesday - 02/11/2020 - 11:53 AMIn a world determined to dematerialize our interactions with each other, we still crave the tactile experience of an actual card.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Anne Enright is the real star of her brilliant new novel ‘Actress’
Tuesday - 02/25/2020 - 08:00 AMThe Booker Prize winner’s seventh novel follows a daughter looking back at her famous mother’s life.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Louis Sachar returns to wacky Wayside School more than 40 years after ‘Sideways Stories’
Wednesday - 02/26/2020 - 08:00 AM“It was a challenge to see if I still had Wayside School inside me,” the author says. It turns out, he did.
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Wednesday - 02/26/2020 - 10:08 AMA snapshot of popular books.
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- In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ the end of the world is only part of the problem
Thursday - 02/27/2020 - 05:49 PMThe real question at the heart of this novel is how a woman is supposed to prepare for the apocalypse when everyday life is so maddening.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Facebook’s early decisions set the stage for scandal
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 08:00 AMSteven Levy mines the company’s history and talks to its leaders to figure out where things went wrong.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How success ruined the West
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 10:47 PMRoss Douthat diagnoses the cause of society’s stagnation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather,’ the end of the world is only part of the problem
Friday - 02/28/2020 - 04:47 PMThe real question at the heart of this novel is how a woman is supposed to prepare for the apocalypse when everyday life is so maddening.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How to become an ex-black man
Friday - 10/11/2019 - 10:00 AMReview of 'Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race' by Thomas Chatterton Williams
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Claude McKay abandoned ‘Romance in Marseille’ because it was too daring. He was just ahead of his time.
Wednesday - 02/05/2020 - 12:04 PMThe novel seems less shocking than strikingly woke, given that its themes include disability, sexual preference, radical politics and the subtleties of racial identity.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A tale of the free-spirited women who tangled with Orwell and other literary lions
Wednesday - 02/19/2020 - 02:00 AM“The Lost Girls” is a group biography of love and lust among the wartime literati.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - For years, Jeffrey Lendrum was at once an avid outdoorsman and merciless thief. Then he got caught.
Tuesday - 02/25/2020 - 10:00 AMJoshua Hammer’s “The Falcon Thief” is a riveting true story of a man notorious for stealing rare bird eggs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ten books to read in March
Tuesday - 02/25/2020 - 02:27 PMThe month’s must-reads includes Hilary Mantel’s finale to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Dead to Her’ may not be the most important novel you’ll read, but it is delicious
Wednesday - 02/26/2020 - 02:00 PMSarah Pinborough’s new book is a sultry tale of sex, lies and deceit.
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