Books
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How Americans Learned to Be Kinder to (Some) Animals
“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.
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The Massacre America Forgot
In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in…
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The Essential Alice Munro
Before I’d read Alice Munro — when my knowledge of her amounted to an oafish word cloud (“older woman,” “Canadian,”…
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Alice Munro, a Literary Alchemist Who Made Great Fiction From Humble Lives
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
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Skewering Leftist Excess With Mockery and Sneers
In “Morning After the Revolution,” an attack on progressive activism, the journalist Nellie Bowles relies more on sarcasm than argument…
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1907 Was a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
In “The Race to the Future,” Kassia St. Clair chronicles the 8,000-mile caper that helped change the landscape forever.
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The Scrappy World War II Pilots Who Took Flight for a Perilous Mission
In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in…
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What We Didn’t Learn From a Space Shuttle Disaster
As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and…
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Adultery Gets Weird in Miranda July’s New Novel
An anxious artist’s road trip stops short for a torrid affair at a tired motel. In “All Fours,” the desire…
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Her Sister Is Dead but Life, and Libido, Carry On
In Kimberly King Parsons’s witty, profane novel, “We Were the Universe,” a young mother seeks to salve a profound loss.