Book Reviews

Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. It isn't totally comprehensive, but it includes just...

The director of New Zealand’s Covid-19 response reviews Within Reason: A Liberal Public Health for an Illiberal Time by Sandro Galea. The US and Aotearoa/New Zealand are both open democratic...

Sally Rooney, whose best-selling novels about Irish millennials have drawn a rapturous readership — and whose TV adaptations, during the early pandemic, supplied our daily recommended dose of heartache —...

July is prime vacation month, and for many of us, that means more opportunities to read for pleasure. Before you take to the road, check out our guide to the 10...

The Matter of Britain has haunted multitudes since the first oral storytellers spoke of a 6th-century warrior doomed to die in battle against Saxon invaders. By the time Sir Thomas...

Do you have a soul-sucking office job? Are you desperately, unhealthily in love with an unworthy lunk? Do you drink with your frenemies to drown what some might deem “champagne...

An autobiography is nothing if not a performance, a way of projecting (and therefore producing) a self. That is to say, an autobiography is nothing if not a kind of...

So many books on the American Civil War have been published in the past 160 years that it’s been estimated they average out to at least one per day since...

A glance, a grimace, a tightening of shoulders: Suspense is in the details — small details — scattered throughout Tana French’s new novel, “The Hunter.” These moments pile up until,...