Washington Post: Books
- Profiles in Thinking About Courage: inside ‘A Warning’ by Anonymous
Wednesday - 11/13/2019 - 03:45 PMA WARNING By Anonymous. Twelve. 259 pp. $30 There is a good reason the anonymous Trump administration official who published an opinion essay in the New Y...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In ‘Get a Life, Chloe Brown,’ a woman transforms her Earl Grey life into something bolder
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 12:24 PMTalia Hibbert’s contemporary British romance is a steamy, funny page-turner.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Examining the many facets of “Peanuts,” a comic-strip gem
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 08:00 AM“The Peanuts Papers” collects essays on the comic’s history, philosophy and humor.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In ‘The Accomplice,’ a CIA analyst turns the hunt for a Nazi into a personal quest
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 10:00 AMJoseph Kanon’s latest novel explores the long shadow of World War II.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In recent memoirs, musicians reveal glamorous tantrums, plenty of drug use and the double-edged sword of fame
Wednesday - 11/13/2019 - 01:25 PMElton John, Rick Ross and Liz Phair have written frank accounts of celebrity life.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Johannes Anyuru’s latest novel is an award winner in Sweden. If there’s any justice, some of that success will cross the Atlanti
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 02:47 PM“They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears” finds humanity in the darkest places.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - If you only know ‘The Three Musketeers,’ you owe yourself the pleasure of its sequel, ‘Twenty Years After’
Wednesday - 11/13/2019 - 11:52 AMA new translation of “Twenty Years After” reminds us of Alexandre Dumas’ artistry.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky, a.k.a. the Astro Poets, are here to make sense of modern life
Monday - 11/11/2019 - 02:14 PMThe Twitter personalities discuss their new book and making astrology — as well as poetry — accessible.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Attention ‘The Crown’ fanatics: Your royal education continues with these recent books
Monday - 11/11/2019 - 06:16 PMIt’s time to re-familiarize yourself with the Windsors.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Inside the battle over Kavanaugh, from ‘handmaid’ protesters to Bible verses
Friday - 11/08/2019 - 08:00 AMTwo books chronicle that fight and offer conservative critiques of the confirmation process.
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- Searching for the man behind the legend of Charlemagne
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 08:00 AMMedieval scholar Janet L. Nelson illuminates the warrior-king who profoundly shaped Europe.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Revealing journeys through Mexico’s ‘hard-up hinterland’
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 03:40 PMPaul Theroux encounters poverty and violence, kindness and hospitality, pride and melancholy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Two accounts of Watergate remind readers: No one knew how it would end
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 09:22 AMJournalists Tom Brokaw and James Reston Jr. capture the tumult and uncertainty of the scandal.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In ‘Get a Life, Chloe Brown,’ a woman transforms her Earl Grey life into something bolder
Saturday - 11/16/2019 - 10:47 AMTalia Hibbert’s contemporary British romance is a steamy, funny page-turner.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - As Turkish writer Ahmet Altan is rearrested, his prison memoir is as urgent as ever
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 01:01 PMAltan’s cri de coeur is a timeless testament to the art and power of writing amid Orwellian repression.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Profiles in Thinking About Courage: inside ‘A Warning’ by Anonymous
Wednesday - 11/13/2019 - 03:45 PMA WARNING By Anonymous. Twelve. 259 pp. $30 There is a good reason the anonymous Trump administration official who published an opinion essay in the New Y...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Robyn Crawford exposes the villains in Whitney Houston’s transcendent, tragic life
Tuesday - 11/12/2019 - 06:00 AMIn “A Song for You,” Crawford worries that the scandal of Houston’s last years can make it easy to forget the greatness of her life.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel
Tuesday - 11/12/2019 - 08:16 AMIn “The Andromeda Evolution,” Daniel H. Wilson tracks a new infection that threatens humanity.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - It’s always a good time to revisit the brilliance of Elizabeth Bishop
Friday - 11/08/2019 - 11:44 AMAnd here’s the perfect excuse: Thomas Travisano’s excellent biography, “Love Unknown.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Inside the battle over Kavanaugh, from ‘handmaid’ protesters to Bible verses
Friday - 11/08/2019 - 06:47 PMTwo books chronicle that fight and offer conservative critiques of the confirmation process.
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- Johannes Anyuru’s latest novel is an award winner in Sweden. If there’s any justice, some of that success will cross the Atlanti
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 03:40 PM“They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears” finds humanity in the darkest places.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - An ambitious lawyer, a stepfather with mob ties and the death of Jimmy Hoffa
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 04:32 PMJack Goldsmith digs into the union leader’s disappearance, in which his stepfather was a leading suspect.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Searching for the man behind the legend of Charlemagne
Friday - 11/15/2019 - 10:47 PMMedieval scholar Janet L. Nelson illuminates the warrior-king who profoundly shaped Europe.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A new biography dishes about Carrie Fisher’s tumultuous, bittersweet life
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 10:00 AMThe actress’s family has disavowed “Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge,” but it reads like a definitive work.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A new biography dishes about Carrie Fisher’s tumultuous, bittersweet life
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 08:47 PMThe actress’s family has disavowed “Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge,” but it reads like a definitive work.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - If you only know ‘The Three Musketeers,’ you owe yourself the pleasure of its sequel, ‘Twenty Years After’
Wednesday - 11/13/2019 - 11:52 AMA new translation of “Twenty Years After” reminds us of Alexandre Dumas’ artistry.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In recent memoirs, musicians reveal glamorous tantrums, plenty of drug use and the double-edged sword of fame
Thursday - 11/14/2019 - 12:47 PMElton John, Rick Ross and Liz Phair have written frank accounts of celebrity life.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Robyn Crawford exposes the villains in Whitney Houston’s transcendent, tragic life
Tuesday - 11/12/2019 - 06:47 PMIn “A Song for You,” Crawford worries that the scandal of Houston’s last years can make it easy to forget the greatness of her life.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky, a.k.a. the Astro Poets, are here to make sense of modern life
Tuesday - 11/12/2019 - 08:47 AMThe Twitter personalities discuss their new book and making astrology — as well as poetry — accessible.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In Cold War Berlin, the Americans had a tunnel, but the Soviets had a mole
Friday - 11/08/2019 - 08:44 AMSteve Vogel recounts the desperate espionage operations in a divided city.
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