Book Reviews

“Framed: Astonishingly True Stories of Wrongful Convictions,” by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey (Dou...

“Countdown 1960: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of the 312 Days that Changed America’s Politics Forever...

In “John Lewis: A Life,” David Greenberg recounts how the late Democratic congressman reacted after ...

Historian H.W. Brands’ “America First: Roosevelt vs Lindbergh in the Shadow of War” barely mentions ...

A procession of books in recent years have explored the UFO phenomenon but few perhaps with the auth...

More than a half century has passed since Ohio National Guard members opened fire on college student...

Mike Madrid, author of the new book “The Latino Century,” is better situated than most political con...

To be clear, Randall Woods’ “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read ...

Writing about the Allied invasion of Normandy, Garrett M. Graff is treading onto familiar history wi...

“The theater, when it is any good, can change things.” So said Hallie Flanagan, a theater professor ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Harry Truman’s ascension to the presidency after Franklin Roosevelt’s death...

The biggest challenge for an author tackling the history of the Situation Room, the basement room of...

Captain James Cook’s voyages in the South Pacific in the late 1700s exemplify the law of unintended ...

Vinson Cunningham, theater critic for the New Yorker, makes a cheeky move with his debut novel, “Gre...

In the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, former national security advisor John Poindexter launch...

It’s 1943, a quarter century after the armistice that ended the so-called Great War, and Americans a...

Amid threats to elections officials, disinformation about the security of U.S. voting systems and on...

Martin Baron’s “Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos and The Washington Post” is actually a trilogy – an...