Book reviews

Are you a loser? Jim VandeHei, the founder of two successful media startups, has some advice:…

Edward VIII—the only English monarch, to date, to have voluntarily abdicated, taking on the title of…

This rich and sometimes compelling book touches on multiple newsworthy themes, but its central…

What if Lincoln had lived? That is a question about which historians have given conflicting…

I have known Joseph Epstein for almost 40 years, but until I read his autobiography, I was unaware…

When I was 16, on the recommendation of Oprah Winfrey, I read Eat, Pray, Love (2006). The…

Miles Davis's 1959 album Kind of Blue is the best-selling instrumental jazz album of all time.…

There are two mistakes we can make about life in North America in the first century of English…