I, John Kennedy Toole, a nonfiction novel co-authored by Kent Carroll and Jodee Blanco (Pegasus Books, May 2020), tells the story of John Kennedy Toole’s tragic life and death and of his novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Since the novel’s…

Edmund Burke: The First ConservativeBy Jesse Norman(Basic Books, 325 pages, $27.99) SAMUEL JOHNSON said of him, “you could not stand five minutes with that man beneath a shed while it rained, but you must be convinced you had been standing…