Washington Post: Books
- A summer book list like no other
Wednesday - 07/26/2017 - 11:37 AMMysteries and fantastical tales selected by Michael Dirda
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gonzo museum director Walter Hopps paints his colorful life in art
Tuesday - 07/25/2017 - 11:25 AMMarvelous anecdotes abound in “The Dream Colony.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Volunteers needed at the National Book Festival
Monday - 07/24/2017 - 05:13 PMThe D.C. festival on Sept. 2 needs about 1,000 people to help out.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Behind the bitter war to preserve the Civil War battlefields
Friday - 07/21/2017 - 04:27 PMBob Zeller recounts the hurdles to saving the sites of this transformative conflict.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A U.S. senator’s plea for today’s kids to shake off the coddling and grow up
Friday - 07/21/2017 - 04:27 PMBen Sasse argues millennials are in danger of becoming ignorant, passive young adults
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity
Thursday - 07/20/2017 - 04:07 PMPapa has long embodied literary machismo — 118 years after his birth, a reconsideration.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Trump remains untouchable as a celebrity rather than a politician
Tuesday - 07/18/2017 - 03:42 PMJoshua Green portrays the Trump-Bannon relationship as a compact of seething outcasts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘A Catalog of Birds’ is a soaring new novel about love and loss
Tuesday - 07/18/2017 - 03:42 PMLaura Harrington tells a story that’s as impossible to categorize as it is to put down.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel?
Tuesday - 07/18/2017 - 02:47 PM200 years after Austen’s death, Emma Straub says forget your shame and start ‘Emma’
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Was Abraham Lincoln an incorrigible racist?
Friday - 07/14/2017 - 08:51 PMFred Kaplan argues Lincoln abhored slavery but was not the head of an anti-slavery push.
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- Look who’s missing from James Patterson’s upcoming children’s book
Tuesday - 07/25/2017 - 11:25 AMOne writer said, ‘Please’ — but he isn’t saying, ‘Thank you.’
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Turn off your iPod and just look at this history of recorded sound
Monday - 07/24/2017 - 05:13 PM‘The Art of Sound: A Visual History for Audiophiles,’ by Terry Burrows
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - He photographed Victor Hugo and Jules Verne — now the spotlight is on him
Friday - 07/21/2017 - 10:33 PM‘The Great Nadar,’ by Adam Begley, celebrates the French photographer and aviator
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Washington Post bestsellers: July 23, 2017
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Does Ruth Ware’s new spine-tingler live up to expectations?
Thursday - 07/20/2017 - 04:07 PM“The Lying Game” has all the trappings of high suspense, haunted house and all
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Samuel Huntington, a prophet for the Trump era
Tuesday - 07/18/2017 - 03:42 PMSamuel Huntington, a prophet for the Trump era
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - It's the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen's death. Here's how her fans are celebrating her life.
Tuesday - 07/18/2017 - 03:42 PMMany events involve costumes, of course.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why W.S. Erwin endures, and other best poetry to read this month
Monday - 07/17/2017 - 09:33 PM‘The Essential W.S. Merwin,’ ‘Lessons on Expulsion’ and ‘Some Say’
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In this heat, you need a trip to ‘South Pole Station’
Saturday - 07/15/2017 - 09:10 PMAshley Shelby’s novel about a group of scientists and artists crackles with energy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Was Reagan an FDR Democrat in GOP clothing?
Friday - 07/14/2017 - 08:51 PMHenry Olsen contends that Reagan was a proponent of progressive ideas and policies
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- The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read
Tuesday - 07/25/2017 - 05:26 PMIn ‘Mrs. Fletcher,’ Tom Perrotta returns to suburbia for some sexy adventures
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sarah Vaughan finally gets the biography she deserves
Monday - 07/24/2017 - 05:13 PMIn ‘Queen of Bebop,’ Elaine M. Hayes traces Vaughan’s ‘crossover’ moments
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Look who’s missing from James Patterson’s upcoming children’s book
Tuesday - 07/25/2017 - 10:47 AMOne writer said, ‘Please’ — but he isn’t saying, ‘Thank you.’
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - By a miracle of chance he rose from a blighted place to make something of himself
Friday - 07/21/2017 - 04:27 PMJim St. Germain recounts the many ‘ifs’ that saved him so he could help save other kids.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - He photographed Victor Hugo and Jules Verne — now the spotlight is on him
Friday - 07/21/2017 - 04:47 PM‘The Great Nadar,’ by Adam Begley, celebrates the French photographer and aviator
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Is it too late to read your first Jane Austen novel?
Tuesday - 07/18/2017 - 03:42 PM200 years after Austen’s death, Emma Straub says forget your shame and start “Emma.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The unbearable burden of superior taste in music
Tuesday - 07/18/2017 - 03:42 PM‘The Forensic Records Society’ is a discordant new comic novel by Magnus Mills.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A girl’s haunting struggle for survival during the Irish Potato Famine
Monday - 07/17/2017 - 03:26 PMPaul Lynch’s “Grace” reads like “The Grapes of Wrath” and “The Road.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A foolhardy shortcut and a monstrous storm turned the Donner Party into history
Saturday - 07/15/2017 - 09:10 PMMichael Wallis recounts the ill-fated journey of the westward pioneers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A foolhardy shortcut and a monstrous storm turned the Donner Party into history
Saturday - 07/15/2017 - 08:47 PMMichael Wallis recounts the ill-fated journey of the westward pioneers.
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