The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose ...
Mark Haddon, the best-selling author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” was an anxious and depressed child. He was afraid of sharks and airplanes, getting sucked into escalators ...
In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...
One morning in January 2006, Rachel Weaver, a 20-something aspiring writer who was about to start grad school in Colorado, woke up to a hurricane; except the hurricane was whirling within her own body ...
Here is a suggestion for director Marc Bruni, scriptwriter Kait Kerrigan and the entire creative team behind the Roaring Twenties musical that launched its national tour Wednesday night from the ...
With this week’s announcement of massive cuts at The Washington Post, the paper’s Book World supplement earned a dismal distinction: It may be the only newspaper book-review section to have been ...
Kelly Rowland and Cliff 'Method Man' Smith in 'Relationship Goals' (Amazon) It didn’t used to be this way, but thanks to the magic of streaming you can now pause anything at any time and pick up on ...
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the ...
On a swamp called the Floating Forest, deep in the Amazon, Paul Rosolie is looking for anacondas. He had heard stories of these giant snakes growing as long as 36 feet, but he remained skeptical. He ...
Bernie for Burlington: The Rise of the People’s Politician, by Dan Chiasson, Alfred A. Knopf, 592 pages. $35. Credit: Courtesy Defensively, Chiasson spins his main character’s nonparticipation as a ...
There have always been ghosts in George Saunders’ fiction, going back to the revenants of a murdered family that haunt the beleaguered narrator of his breakout novella, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline. In ...
In the book world, Colleen Hoover’s about as polarizing as an author can get. Some readers laud her as a literary powerhouse, a mainstay of the romance genre. Others consider her books — and her ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results