To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South’s Most Feared Ship and the Greatest Sea…

Cracks are starting to widen in the conventional “history” of Watergate — the Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein/Hollywood version (familiar from the…

Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon and the Election of 1960 By Irwin F. Gellman (Yale University Press, 504 pages,…

American historian Alexander Motyl tackles a taboo subject in his new book A Russian in Berlin, a novel about memories…

As a boy, I had a small TV in my room. My parents didn’t need to worry about its dangerous…

Creative Types and Other Stories Tom Bissell Pantheon, 224 pages, $24 The Hack, one of seven short stories in journalist…

Reading Mel Brooks’s new autobiography, All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business, I found myself thinking, “There will…

Before getting to the “hole” in RFK Jr.’s new book, I would like to say that his brutal smackdown of…

Jews from all over the world are celebrating Hanukkah this week. Hanukkah commemorates the political and religious emancipation of the…

Fans of John Keats (1795–1821) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) have a reason to celebrate. Esteemed Shakespeare scholar Sir Jonathan…