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