Book Reviews & Recommendations
In Boat Baby, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen shares an unforgettable memoir that blends courage, humor, and heartfelt reflection. Through vivid storytelling, Nguyen traces her family’s journey from war-torn Vietnam to a new life in America, exploring the meaning of […]
Scott Ellsworth’s Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America aims for narrative propulsion over academic granularity, and for the most part it hits the mark. If you like your history […]
History has a way of hiding its most extraordinary heroes, and Pippa Latour was one of them. The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines, co-written with journalist Jude Dobson, finally brings to light the incredible true story […]
Peter Beinart’s latest is not a neutral primer. It is a moral brief that asks readers to reconsider the dominant Jewish narrative of victimhood and supremacy, and to replace it with a story rooted in equality, shared safety, and the infinite value […]
Douglas Murray’s On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization arrives at a time when the world’s moral compass seems increasingly fractured. As the author of The War on the West and The Madness of Crowds, Murray has long […]
There are countless retellings of the Trojan War, yet few manage to strike a balance between grandeur, humor, and heartbreak the way Troy by Stephen Fry does. Known for his wit and narrative charm, Fry takes one of the world’s oldest and […]
In The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, Erik Larson once again proves his mastery at turning history into an unforgettable human drama. Known for The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake, […]
What would happen if a nuclear missile were launched toward the United States today, in real life? That haunting question lies at the heart of Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, a pulse-pounding, meticulously researched nonfiction thriller that imagines the unthinkable in […]
Rhys Bowen, bestselling author of The Rose Arbor and The Venice Sketchbook, has delivered yet another captivating tale with Mrs. Endicott’s Splendid Adventure. Set in pre-WWII Europe, this historical novel blends resilience, friendship, and the thrill of unexpected reinvention into a heartwarming […]