By Emily Eakin A new book traces shifts in the nation’s treatment of aging adults — for better and for worse. By Dwight Garner His new book, “Aflame,” tells of his decades visiting a ...
An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books. By John Cotter In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the ...
It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...
Last year around this time, I mentioned that I don’t enjoy keeping a list of what I have read because it can feel more like a Shadow Accounting of Books I Sadly Failed to Read. Then I fret over the ...