Books

CHASING CHOPIN A Musical Journey Across Three Centuries, Four Countries, and a Half-Dozen Revolutions By Annik LaFarge Like many people, I learned about Chopin’s “Funeral March” at an early age,...

FINDING FREEDOM Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family By Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand I’ve cried for Meghan Markle three times. The first time was...

ZO By Xander Miller When we speak of a world, we are often speaking of both the most intimate of human interiors and the land and nations that surround it:...

EVIL GENIUSES The Unmaking of America: A Recent History By Kurt Andersen It used to be called the New World. Now it’s run by a man who wants to make...

IRON EMPIRES Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America By Michael Hiltzik “Type of the modern — emblem of motion and power — pulse of the continent,” Walt...

Royal fans have long been aware that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex met through a mutual friend — but precisely which contact is responsible for setting them up has...

Ancient glaciers did not travel alone. They carried within them pebbles, rocks, even boulders, sometimes for hundreds of miles. These migrating stones, once deposited, are called “erratics” — they stick...

VERITAS A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife By Ariel Sabar In 2012, the Harvard scholar Karen King announced what she believed to be an...

CITY AT THE EDGE OF FOREVER Los Angeles Reimagined By Peter Lunenfeld Los Angeles is due for a masterpiece. Carey McWilliams’s “Southern California Country: An Island on the Land” —...

In 1979, Barry Goldwater turned to his diary to register a change in the nation’s politics. “Today as I sit in the Senate,” he wrote, “it is interesting to me...