Carrie Classon My husband, Peter, and I have landed in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and already the strange seems familiar again. One of the things that impresses me every time I am here is ...

Sometimes it seems funny how things go, but often, if one looks hard enough, one can see why. In 2020, elaborating Giorgio Agamben’s pandemic perspectives, one of the two authors of Nihilist Communism ...

In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

THE WHISTLERS’ ROOM—Paul Alverdes —Covici-Friede ($1.50). In a German hospital overlooking the Rhine was one ward known as the Whistlers’ Room. Here were four men who had been shot through the throat; ...

TWIN CITIES — A Minnesota native and resident, Carrie Classon, and syndicated columnist is getting ready to release her debut novel. Classon is a columnist with Andrews McMeel Universal and writes a ...

This article first appeared in Book Gossip, a newsletter about what we’re reading and what we actually think about it. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every month. Dear Book Gossipers, you don’t ...

Here are the year’s most notable picture and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Jennifer Krauss Jennifer Krauss ...

The New Deal, George Selgin suggests, did not work the way most historians claim. This economist’s eye-opening analysis shows that the increased government centralization of the 1930s rarely resulted ...

Last week we published our annual list of 100 Notable Books; today, we winnow that list to the 10 Best Books of 2025. And now, we’re ready to discuss them. In this week’s episode, the Book Review ...

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Banned Books Week has begun and new titles are dominating this year's top challenged list. Banned Books Week is Oct. 5-11 and this year's theme is, "Censorship Is so 1984. Read for Your Rights." The ...