In 2024, Foreign Policy contributors read books that pushed them to reflect on their career experiences, reconsider the ...
Three books stand out for me this year; they are all in different ways about complexity. Lauren Benton’s They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence (Princeton University Press) explores the ...
Though much of the present action of this funny, deceptively keen and artful novel takes place in one rental house or another, it’s a curious title for the book. The settings are too staged to ...
While it's hard to imagine anyone ignoring Garner — one of Australia's most respected authors — she leans into the invisibility of old age in her latest book, The Season, an account of her ...
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Richard Willis, visiting professor at the University of South Wales, reviews the winner of the Professional Book of the Year at the Nursery World Awards 2024 As a wave of early years books hits the ...
As he prepares to write a piece on Léopoldville and Brazzaville, two capitals separated by one river, we wonder what kind of book his creator has set out to write. An African drama like ...
While December remains a sleepier month for new book releases than other times of the year, December 2024 offers quite a few terrific titles, so many that it was difficult to choose among them.
A wide array of women have decided to skip out on their own progeny, for a variety of reasons and with varied degrees of suffering. Review by Meghan Cox Gurdon ...
The timing couldn’t have been better — a much-hyped Netflix adaptation of the book, starring Korean superstar Gong Yoo and Seo Hyun-jin, releases today. Korean translations have taken the ...
Books we're reading and loving this week: Globe staffers and readers share their book picks In his effort to stave off the starvation of First Nations in the West, in his handling of the Riel ...
It is said that the fox knows many things while the hedgehog knows one thing. In book terms, Matthew Lockwood’s “Explorers” is a hedgehog. Short and snug, it bristles with stories about ...