All Book Reviews
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Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark
Pauline Kael became the voice for a new generation of film-goers.
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The Apple Lovers Cookbook
Delicious recipes are paired with an in-depth guide to 59 apple varieties.
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Good Living Street
An Australian art critic probes the past of his family – Austrian Jews who enjoyed one of Vienna's grandest eras, only to lose it all in the face of World War II.
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The Best American Poetry 2011
This collection of 2011 poetry offers both consolation and honest assessment in the face of a difficult year.
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Almost President
Why some of the candidates who lost the race for president ultimately had a bigger impact than many of those who won.
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On Conan Doyle
Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda offers a love letter to Arthur Conan Doyle, the author he credits with changing his life.
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Killing the Cranes
After decades in Afghanistan, a Monitor journalist offers a memoir and field report.
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Jerusalem: The Biography
Chronicling the world's holiest city
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Shiny Objects: Why We Spend Money We Don’t Have in Search of Happiness We Can’t Buy
Christmas shopping out of control? "Shiny Objects" may be your next best read.
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The Litigators
The main case in John Grisham's 24th novel fails to offer enough twists and turns to hook this reader.
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The Food52 Cookbook
Looking for a cookbook that delivers – in equal shares – rigor, wit, and great recipes? "The Food52 Cookbook" may become your new best friend.
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China In Ten Words
How do you best define a country? Chinese author Yu Hua summarizes his homeland in 10 words.
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Pearl Harbor: FDR Leads the Nation into War
What did FDR feel on Dec. 7, 1941? Historian Steven M. Gillon brings the day Pearl Harbor was bombed into sharp relief.
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White Truffles in Winter
An opulent novel based on the life of Auguste Escoffier, the 'king of chefs and chef of kings.'
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And So It Goes
The first serious biography of counterculture hero Kurt Vonnegut reveals a man wounded by his childhood and full of contradictions as an adult.
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Finding Fernanda
Two mothers – one in the US, one in Guatemala – seek the same child in this exposé of the abuses of the international adoption system.
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The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman offers a feminist take on the siege of Masada in what may be her best novel yet.
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Biographer Robert K. Massie gives us a Catherine the Great who is ever interesting and intelligent – but not necessarily admirable.
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11/22/63
Stephen King whisks readers back to 1963 in a piece of time-traveling historical fiction that asks: What if JFK had survived?
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Warriors of God: Inside Hezbollah’s Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
Journalist Nicholas Blanford's comprehensive account of the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel is well-paced and gripping.
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