Book Reviews

Dan Evans’s A Nation of Shopkeepers explores the growth of the “petty bourgeoisie” in the UK following Thatcherism, as the rise of home ownership, small landlordism and changes to the world of...

A little over a decade ago, while researching what became my first book, I spent two months in Trinidad conducting archival research at the University of the West Indies. I...

Yet as much as O’Neill draws from contemporary life in his fiction, he sees a distinction between his novels and short stories and his essays. His books “are inevitably political,...

Violence and its impact on writers anchor three of our recommended books this week: Michael Korda offers a group biography of the soldier-poets of World War I, while Kristine Ervin...

The story of Psykhe (or Psyche) and Eros has been told – and retold – countless times over the past several thousand years. ‘I have loved the myth of Psykhe...

Garrett Graff chronicles the Allied invasion of Normandy in “When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day.”By ANDREW DeMILLO Associated PressJune 4, 2024, 7:54 AM ET• 2 min...

Here’s a confession: I’ve been trying to follow the story of reproductive rights since the fall of Roe in 2022, and I’ve been struggling. At the time of this writing,...

It is a hazard to read on an empty stomach. What is it about words that makes things taste so delicious? I can still recall the twelfth-grade English class, held...

‘Lake County’ by Lori Roy. Thomas & Mercer, 312 pages, $28.99 Echoes of Carson McCullers and a soupcon of Flannery O’Connor filter through Lori Roy’s superb “Lake County,” her sixth novel....

The Shoah, or the Holocaust, has weighed on my family ever since I was born. My grandparents and parents constantly spoke about my great uncles and their families who were...