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Our weekly selection of book reviews and recommendations from Book World editor Ron Charles.
- Fiction
Flanagan’s profound book interweaves personal memories with...
- Nonfiction
In a new book, “Gobsmacked!,” writer and language...
- Review
In that debut, she grappled with World War II and Vietnam,...
- Lucy Score's First Book Sold 35 Copies. Now She Has an Instant Bestseller
All three books take place in the fictional Knockemout, Va.,...
- Four New Novels to Read This Summer
Cece’s world is saturated with color, blood reds and...
- Staff Picks
What Book World writers and editors are reading now (Video:...
- Becca Rothfeld
Becca Rothfeld is the nonfiction book critic at Book World....
- Nora Krug
Nora Krug is an editor and writer in Book World. Before...
- Fiction
3 dni temu · Is digital technology leading us to the ‘extinction of experience’? In her new book, Christine Rosen says yes, but is imprecise about exactly how and why -- and what exactly we’re losing. By...
16 lis 2023 · The result is an inspired amalgam of genres — part thriller, part mystery and part biography. (Book World review.) The 10 best books of 2023, selected by Book World editors and critics.
Robert Harris returns, with the masterly historical novel ‘Precipice’. The British writer’s latest reimagines the relationship between Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and socialite Venetia Stanley...
24 wrz 2024 · Books Review. Debating economic inequality, with help from Jesus, Plato and Rousseau. In “The Greatest of All Plagues,” David Lay Williams writes about seven major thinkers who saw...
4 paź 2023 · Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately. The Washington Post’s Book World expands staff one year after reviving standalone print section. Washington Post / Oct 4, 2023. The section, reintroduced in 2022, had last appeared in print in 2009.
17 mar 2024 · By Washington Post book critic Ron Charles. This month's books take us from pre-Civil War America to the modern-day politics, the rise of Silicon Valley, and the future of the planet. For...