RSS Items

Set in the decades after the Great Hunger, “Land” is a rich portrait of family life amid Ireland’s long struggle against British rule.

In “Rabbit, Fox, Tar,” a white neighborhood’s local election is complicated when a mysterious, dark-skinned woman suddenly appears in town.

In a quietly devastating new book, two journalists chart the protest movements fighting for change inside the country.

In her book “Sublimation,” Isabel J. Kim reimagines the dilemmas of immigration through a science fiction story about scheming clones.

“The Fire Agent,” by David Baerwald, is a historical novel that spans two continents and world wars.

A collection of Harold Bloom’s letters details the working life of one of America’s most influential intellects.

As presented in Andrea Wulf’s new biography, “The Traveler,” George Forster was an impressively curious, open-minded 17-year-old naturalist and polymath.

In “The Wreck of the Mentor,” the maritime historian Eric Jay Dolin brings to life a dramatic episode from the golden age of whaling.

Beyond a few pointed digs at her husband’s successor, “View From the East Wing” largely sticks to the head-spinning details of first lady-hood.

Josh Weil’s new novel follows an autistic trapper on an odyssey during the California gold rush.