Stephan Thernstrom, a Harvard history professor and author who, with his wife, the political scientist Abigail Thernstrom, vaulted to national prominence during the 1990s as a...
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William E. Leuchtenburg, a historian whose books cemented the place of Franklin D. Roosevelt among the greatest American presidents, died on Tuesday at his home in...
THE KILLING FIELDS OF EAST NEW YORK: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood, by Stacy Horn...
By Uketsu; translated by Jim Rion The Japanese author Uketsu, according to his biography, “only ever appears online, wearing a mask and speaking through a voice...
Operating under the royal governor’s aegis, the regiment spread a contagion of hope through the enslaved population. Dunmore’s Black regiment reportedly wore uniforms that bore the...
SHATTERED: A Memoir, by Hanif Kureishi In December 2022, in Rome, fate took Hanif Kureishi by the wrong hand. He was sitting in the living room...
Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions,...
The comic book company that publishes the graphic novels and comics of Neil Gaiman announced this weekend that it would no longer work with the author...
GOOD DIRT, by Charmaine Wilkerson “Good Dirt,” like Charmaine Wilkerson’s 2022 best-selling debut, “Black Cake,” is an engrossing epic that explores how intergenerational trauma shapes and...
