The Lies of the Artists is a clever title for a book with the subtitle Essays on Italian Art, 1450-1750, but it seems to promise, as suggested on the book’s back cover, an exposé of the artists’ ...

The moving twin dedications (both authors contribute) are personal and theological: a foretaste of the direction of travel of the whole book (which is also very practical) as it continually dives into ...

David Pogue’s tour through the 50-year history of Apple lights on dozens of innovations along the way. Not all of them bore ...

In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their ...

The case for cultivating attention—and luxuriating in works of power and beauty.

A master craftsman supposedly pours their soul into their work. In this book review of The Violin Maker’s Secret, we explore an instrument that ...

This is the 15th installment in Mark Greaney’s popular “Gray Man” series, which stars ex-CIA agent Courtland “Court” Gentry.

In Vigdis Hjorth’s novel “Repetition,” a writer recalls a pivotal period of transformation, sex and family crises.

The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose ...

The Bush political dynasty started with Prescott Bush, George H.W. Bush’s father, who in 1952 was elected to represent ...

John Irving Don’t read John Irving’s latest novel, “Queen Esther,” based on hearing it’s a sequel to “Cider House Rules.” “Queen Esther” revisits Dr. Wilbur Larch and the orphanage […] ...