he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books. Karissa Chen’s debut, “Homeseeking,” follows two childhood sweethearts who meet in Shanghai, and whose lives are upended by the forces of history.

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Hard to believe we’ve arrived at yet another installment of the Biblioracle Book Awards in which I reflect back on my 12 months of reading and invent awards for books published in the 2024 ...

Civil War history and Southern fiction. He also sent Erica Jong a fan letter. For many years, the 39th president generated little attention from authors. But recently books have sought to re ...

Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the ... This was reasonable, given the C.I.A.’s history, but Coll indicates that it was exactly the wrong fear.

I am always surprised when I comb through my page views at the end of each year. What struck a chord with readers in 2024 were stories about teacher pay, reading instruction and artificial ...

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If you haven’t yet read the History Today Books of the Year Part 1, you can find it here. But this year has also been a time of small miracles. We were so glad to welcome a new generation raising ...

BOULDER • Before stepping down into the basement of a brick cottage on the University of Colorado campus, I had been thinking about a book ... The New Yorker’s Jill Lepore, who cited a ...

In Alafair Burke’s ‘The Note,’ a trio of complicated female friends gets caught up in a murder mystery that starts in the Hamptons. Perle Mesta’s affable personality and compulsive party ...

Writing a history ‘from below’ of developments often exclusively viewed as imposed ‘from above’, Arnold mines the archives of the Languedoc to show how lay people and their communities shaped – as ...

The stories in these history books will have believing the truth really is stranger than fiction. Clarkson's rallying cry to all farmers that dispels any notion of farmer's having an easy life.