Book Review | ‘Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus’ by Elaine Pagels
An exploration of the mystery of how a poor young man inspired a religion that reshaped the world.
David Starkey
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Book Review | ‘Golden State: The Making of California’ by Michael Hiltzik
From Pulitzer Prize winner Hiltzik, a new history of California that’s not always flattering.
Book Review | ‘American Artifacts’ by Matt Black
Humble, discarded objects form a portrait of America assembled from its roadways and sidewalks, an archaeology of dispossession.
Book Review | ‘Expatriates of No Country: The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene,’ Edited by Brigitta Olubas
A lively and pertinent correspondence from two writers.
Book Review | ‘The Letters of Emily Dickinson,’ Edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell
A poet even in her personal missives, this new collection is a research opus the rest of us can enjoy.
Book Review | ‘Held’ by Anne Michaels
Booker-nominated novelist captures the elusive nature of our strongest emotions, in prose.
An Alcoholic Monkey and a Mid-Century Housewife Walk into an Entertaining New Novel …
Michael Seabaugh talks about his latest book, “Gwendolyn & Eddie.”
Book Review | ‘Memories of Distant Mountains’ by Orhan Pamuk
The illustrated notebooks of a Nobel Prize winner.
Book Review | ‘I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition’ by Lucy Sante
An exploration of the trials and joys of gender transition.
Book Review | ‘A Sunny Place for Shady People: How Malta Became One of the Most Curious and Corrupt Places in the World’ by Ryan Murdock
One man’s experiences living in Malta, interspersed with personal narrative.
