Professional book reviewers are an endangered species—but not at the Washington Monthly. The Monthly’s Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing is the nation’s only journalism prize ...

Ha” is the prizewinning first novel by Jennifer Dawson, an accomplished mid-20th-century chronicler of women and madness.

Charlie English begins “The CIA Book Club” by describing a 1970s technical manual: a dull cover, as uninviting as anything. A book that practically begs you to put it back on the shelf and move on.

John Adams reviews “Every Valley,” Charles King’s new book about the artistic, social and political forces surrounding one of the greatest pieces of music ever created. By John Adams John Adams will ...

When I first traveled to the Soviet Union in the 1960s, I was given a few books—including Russian translations of the Bible and George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four”—and told to leave them on a park ...

In the first column I wrote for this newspaper, I covered three novels. One of those books was by James Lee Burke. I have reviewed all 20 books Burke has published during the years since then.