This year, the ten history books we’ve chosen to highlight served a dual purpose. Some offered a respite from reality, transporting readers to places like ancient Rome and Tudor England. Others reflected on the fraught nature of the current moment, detailing how the nation’s past—including ...
Against this backdrop, the ten history books we’ve chosen to highlight this year served a dual purpose. Some reflected on the fraught nature of the current moment, detailing how the nation’s past—including lynchings in the Jim Crow South and a New Deal culture war—informs its present ...
These are the five fiction and five nonfiction books that the staff of the New York Times agree are the best of the year — after a lot of debate. If you want to browse the long list of all 100, check out thei...
“Silhouettes and Shadows: The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)” Adam Steiner— Before discussing Steiner’s focus on Bowie’s antics in Berlin and New York City during the years before his platinum-plated “Let’s Dance” album it’s important to k...
Here we share the best new fiction of 2024, look back at the best fiction books of 2023, and share some of the best fiction of all time.
There are so many works out there, desperate for you to read them, so picking one mere title to give to your loved one (or yourself, we won’t judge) can be a nigh-on impossible task. Luckily for you, we’ve compiled a list of ten wonderful books that would be perfect to wrap ...
Revolutions and rubles, godlings and fascist symbols, Shakespeare and silk: ten historians choose their favourite new history books of 2023.
is among the most sophisticated and powerful novelists we have. Clinging to the undercarriage of her sentences, like fugitives, are intimations of Germany’s politics, history and cultural memory … She is writing more closely to her own unconscious … I don’t generally read the books I review...
Bill Janovitz, 'Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History' Hachette Books Bill Janovitz, 'Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History' Leon Russell collaborated with the best of the best: the Beach Boys, Eric Cl...
Bill Janovitz, 'Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History' Hachette Books Bill Janovitz, 'Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History' Leon Russell collaborated with the best of the best: the Beach Boys, Eric Cl...