A Harper’s article on the publishing industry, in need of an editor even more than this newsletter is, lays out,…
The rewriting of Roald Dahl’s so-called kids’ books to avoid alienating progressives who refuse to bring children into the world…
Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 By Mark Moyar (Encounter Books, 732 pages, $50) Scholars and writers who challenge conventional…
Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: A Biography By Matthew Dennison (Pegasus Books, 272 pages, $24) The iconic children’s book…
WASHINGTON — Norman Mailer once told me that the American people respect an eminence merely for growing old. I believe…
It’s been a long year. But in the darkness spread by the many challenges our country faces, this Christmas season…
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers By Emma Smith (Penguin Random House, 352 pages, $28) We are…
Anyone who doubts detective fiction can be high literature will be persuaded otherwise by just the prologue of Andrew Klavan’s…
When James Daunt became the CEO of the national bookseller Barnes & Noble in 2019, he came with a clear vision:…
