Historical Fiction Imbued With a Rich Sense of Place
Our columnist on four stellar new releases. Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first ...
In ‘Memorial Days,’ Geraldine Brooks writes of grief, widowhood, and enduring love
The author's account of her husband's sudden death (and what comes after) is a new classic in the literature of widowhood ...
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The story of one woman’s fight to gain African independence from colonial rule
Eve Blouin, daughter of African independence activist Andrée Blouin, speaks to the The World’s Host Marco Werman about a new ...
Subprime Mortgages Destroyed Them. Who Paid the Price?
In “The Killing Fields of East New York,” Stacy Horn profiles one 1990s white-collar crime spree and the wreckage it left ...