Books
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Inside Reese Witherspoon’s Literary Empire
“You’d be shocked by how many books have women chained in basements,” Reese Witherspoon said. “I know it happens in…
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A Novel of Nantucket’s Unglamorous Side
In “Wait,” Gabriella Burnham examines island life from a fresh angle.
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In the Corporate World, Woke Is the Rage but Greed Is Still King
Three new books chronicle businesses where executive self-enrichment at the expense of workers — and sometimes the law — prevails.
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Kara Walker’s Favorite Literary Villain Is Scarlett O’Hara
What books are on your night stand? “A Scanner Darkly,” Philip K. Dick; “Trust,” Hernan Diaz. Describe your ideal reading…
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How Americans Learned to Be Kinder to (Some) Animals
“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.
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The Massacre America Forgot
In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in…
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The Essential Alice Munro
Before I’d read Alice Munro — when my knowledge of her amounted to an oafish word cloud (“older woman,” “Canadian,”…
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Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
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Skewering Leftist Excess With Mockery and Sneers
In “Morning After the Revolution,” an attack on progressive activism, the journalist Nellie Bowles relies more on sarcasm than argument…
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1907 Was a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
In “The Race to the Future,” Kassia St. Clair chronicles the 8,000-mile caper that helped change the landscape forever.