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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our ...

Where do you look for good books to read these days, besides NPR, of course? But where else do you go for reviews or recommendations? The Washington Post's Book World used to be one of those spaces ...

Laurie Hertzel remembers the old building on Portland Avenue in downtown Minneapolis and the space it had carved out just for books. At the time, she was the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s books editor, a ...

With his outstanding “The Hard Line,” Mark Greaney’s trademark style — his intense plotting emphasizing fast-and-furious action that taps into the changing political environment — continues to reshape ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Jane Goodall, the late primatologist, was known ...

You knew it years ago. When you were little and people asked you what you wanted to do when you grew up, the answer was obvious: you had a dream and an idea. Sure, other interests caught your eye once ...

On a swamp called the Floating Forest, deep in the Amazon, Paul Rosolie is looking for anacondas. He had heard stories of these giant snakes growing as long as 36 feet, but he remained skeptical. He ...

Barney Rosset risked violence and insolvency so that his Grove Press could print unexpurgated American editions of such forbidden works as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in 1959 and “Tropic of Cancer” in ...

Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, by Dan Chiasson, Alfred A. Knopf, 592 pages. $35. Credit: Courtesy Defensively, Chiasson spins his main character’s nonparticipation as a ...

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I almost wound up underlining all of Walter Isaacson’s slim new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. It’s that smart, challenging, personal, humane -- with only 41 pages of text and a few short ...