By Kate Tuttle In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Patricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 thriller about wealth, status, obsession and murder.

June 29, 2024 • Many assume that timidity -- or its close cousin, shyness -- is solely a negative trait. But longtime cartoonist Jonathan Todd shows this is not always the case in this semi ...

What makes a book fall into this category is that it keeps moving—think page-turning action in place of character contemplation or lush, evocative descriptions of the setting.

View our full list of free newsletters. Both historically astute and visually delightful, the book captures the influence of the Art Nouveau movement on printed materials at the turn of the ...

Six independent bookstores have opened in Clark County since 2021, tapping into a national trend that a 2022 New York Times ...

Mary Calvi talks to author Brenda Janowitz about beach bag books: "Jackpot Summer" by Elyssa Friedland, "Summer Romance" by ...

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By Louis Bayard Recommended reading from the Book Review, including titles by Jhumpa Lahiri, Kerry Howley, Djuna and more. By Shreya Chattopadhyay Suggested reading from critics and editors at ...

In “A History of Lying,” the novelist Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel argues that lies are inescapable. But being in the periphery of a real man who couldn’t stop lying casts light on the ways ...

and it overflows with surprising stories Richard Overy, one of our finest military historians, turns from the facts of warfare to the ideas behind it in his compelling book Why War?

Andrew O’Hagan’s social satire is drawing comparisons to “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and being touted as a perceptive “state of the nation” tome. The scientist, public health ...