Monday, June 24, 2019 - 5:00am
By Elizabeth Nicholas
Juliet Escoria’s “Juliet the Maniac” sees the life of a bipolar teenager in gut-wrenching fragments.
Monday, June 24, 2019 - 5:00am
By Gabriel Debenedetti
Michael Bennet’s “The Land of Flickering Lights” is a call to end the partisan stalemate in Washington.
Sunday, June 23, 2019 - 7:00am
By Jean Zimmerman
Elin Hilderbrand — known as the "Queen of Summer" — is back with another beachy tale of family secrets and intrigue (and tasty period details), set on Nantucket during the turbulent summer of 1969.
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Sunday, June 23, 2019 - 5:00am
By Evan Thomas
Carl Hulse’s “Confirmation Bias” recounts the recent battles to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat.
Saturday, June 22, 2019 - 7:00am
By Juanita Giles
NPR's new kids' fiction column — by Juanita Giles, founder of the Virginia Children's Book Festival — kicks off with an explanation of why the epic poem Beowulf is the perfect bathtime read.
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Friday, June 21, 2019 - 4:53pm
Lepore discusses several new books about the Apollo 11 mission, and Julie Satow talks about the history of the Plaza Hotel.
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 2:35pm
Readers respond to recent reviews in the Sunday Book Review about domestic violence, the state of conservatism in America and more.
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 12:02pm
By Alexandra Alter and Mark Mazzetti
Mr. Weissmann appears to be the first prosecutor on the special counsel’s team to agree to write a book, though it is not clear how much he will reveal.
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 7:00am
By Jason Heller
Richard Kadrey — known for his Sandman Slim series of supernatural noirs — reinvents himself in grand fashion with The Grand Dark, a diesel-punk fantasy set in a simulacrum of Weimar Germany.
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Friday, June 21, 2019 - 5:00am
By Tamara Shopsin
The illustrator Tamara Shopsin offers her take on lines from the poetry of David Berman.