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.

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.

Antonio Di Benedetto’s characters are repellent and constantly frustrated. Why are they so captivating? By Michael Greenberg Michael Greenberg is the author of “Hurry Down Sunshine” and “Beg, Borrow, ...