Books / Authors

Reviews, author interviews, and book news.

The story of a 19th-century firebrand who stood up to abortion foes

12/11/23 - Washington Post

An American writer, seduced by the Seine

12/06/19 - Washington Post

'Three Flames,' by Alan Lightman examines the long shadow of Cambodia's civil war

9/12/19 - Washington Post

A new mother, her domestic help and the relentlessness of women's work

5/3/19 - Washington Post

A midlife crisis that includes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and a threesome

6/8/18 - Washington Post

How Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School artists helped define a nation

9/12/18 - Washington Post

The big personality and big contributions of John Wesley Powell

9/8/18 - Washington Post

Meet the microscopic creatures that share your home, bed and shower

12/14/18 - Washington Post

Frances Mayes's new Tuscan novel is the 'Eat, Pray, Love' for women of a certain age

4/10/18 - Washington Post

Put down the phone, look at the world around you, waste a little time

6/28/18 - Washington Post

'Dangerous Boobies': One woman's experience 'breaking up with' her breasts

9/14/17 - Washington Post

Mark Twain's funny scheme to get out of debt

8/2/16 - Washington Post

Memoir of an All-American Boy With 1950s France at Its Heart

5/17/16 - Wall Street Journal

Guide to Essential Books on Expat Life: From How-Tos and Memoirs to Fiction

5/21/15 - Wall Street Journal

A Story of Rural Wartime China, 70 Years in the Making

12/13/13 - Wall Street Journal

New Release of Lao She Books Revisits a Dark History

8/9/13 - Wall Street Journal

Half a Century of Harvesting Souls in China

3/13/13 - Wall Street Journal

'Tiger Head, Snake Tails': China in 400 Pages

3/12/12 - Wall Street Journal

Amy Tan Q&A: China Then and Now, and How to Bridge the Gap

11/15/11 - Wall Street Journal

In latest painful memoir, author might share too much

8/25/08 - Boston Globe