Book excerpt: "Come and Get It" by Kiley Reid
The author of the bestseller "Such a Fun Age" is back with a wry novel about young women at college.
Books
Book excerpt: "My Friends" by Hisham Matar
The latest novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Return" imagines the life of a student wounded during a protest against Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi 40 years ago.
Book excerpt: "True North" by Andrew J. Graff
The author of "Raft of Stars" returns with a family drama about a schoolteacher's scheme to save his marriage by buying a run-down rafting company and uprooting his family to Wisconsin's Northwoods.
The Book Report: Ron Charles' favorite novels of 2023
The Washington Post book reviewer offers his picks for the best fiction of the year.
How white evangelicals' support of Trump is creating schisms in the church
In his new book, "The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory," journalist Tim Alberta, son of a born-again Christian pastor, writes of an "age of extremism" in which white evangelicals have become embroiled by politics and their support of Donald Trump.
Book excerpt: "Nobody Needs to Know," an intersex individual's memoir
Activist Pidgeon Pagonis writes of the experience of being one of the .05 to 1.7% of the world's population having external or internal sexual organs that are not clearly male or female.
Book excerpt: "Devil Makes Three" by Ben Fountain
The award-winning author of "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk" returns with a political thriller involving an American entrepreneur caught amid a coup in Haiti.
Book excerpt: "North Woods" by Daniel Mason
The author of "The Piano Tuner" and "The Winter Soldier" returns with a novel that spans centuries, set in the woods of Massachusetts and a homestead that is a site of mystery and wonder.
Book excerpt: "Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein" by Anne Eekhout
In her new historical novel the Dutch author recreates the fabled 1816 weekend when an 18-year-old Mary Shelley, trapped by a storm at Lord Byron's rented Swiss estate, conjured the horror tale "Frankenstein."
Book excerpt: "Let Us Descend" by Jesmyn Ward
The latest novel from the two-time National Book Award-winner, about an enslaved Black girl in the American South, is thick with ghosts, history and searing poetry.
The Book Report: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (October 22)
With Halloween creeping up on us, our book reviewer recommends some new novels haunted by ghosts and monsters of one kind or another.
Book excerpt: "Romney: A Reckoning" by McKay Coppins
A new biography of the Republican Senator's career describes his determination to speak out on January 6, 2021 against President Trump's lies about his election loss, just as violent Trump supporters broke into the Capitol.
David Brooks on his mission: To counter our nation's spiritual crisis
The New York Times columnist believes it's not naïve to trust in others. In his new book, "How to Know a Person," he aims to help people divided by partisanship and social media better see and understand one another.
Rachel Maddow on "Prequel" and the rise of the fascist movement in America
Prior to World War II, antisemites and Nazi sympathizers in the U.S. plotted to set up a Hitler-style dictatorship in America. Rachel Maddow says we are seeing another threat to democracy from the ultra-right today.
Book excerpt: "Prequel" by Rachel Maddow
In her latest book, the bestselling author and MSNBC host writes about the rise of fascist sympathizers in the U.S. prior to World War II, and their goal to create a dictatorship in America.
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"Severance" star Adam Scott
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Capturing the melting of glaciers, with data and art
For more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring shrinking glaciers in Washington State. He's been joined by his daughter, artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors provide another view of the drastically-changing landscape.
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To tip or not to tip: That is David Sedaris' question
The humorist has some thoughts about gratuities, especially when they're pre-programmed onto a screen.
The JFK Files
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At 75, "Sunset Boulevard" is ready again for its closeup
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Steve Wozniak on fighting internet scams
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The crypto craze sweeping Washington and Wall Street
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