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Brian Morton imbues his memoir with a wry, pained tenderness.

This week’s selection of books includes a satire on our times, a novel by C.S. Lewis, and a ...

Take more than a page from the super-wealthy and successful by reading the books billionaires wrote on how they reached the peak of success.

Greater Good picks our favorite books to help parents and their kids thrive.

Mims Cushing says the gripping story -- about an airplane pilot facing life-or-death choices -- is an impressive debut novel from T.J. Newman.

Avid Reader Press, $27 Everyone poops. But not everyone has a safe, sanitary place to do it. What’s more, existing wastewater treatments consume tons of water and energy while flushing away materials that could make fertilizers, fuels and other products. “We can do better,” science journalist Chelsea Wald writes in Pipe Dreams, which recounts how scientists, entrepreneurs and activists are coming up with creative ways to make bathrooms more available and sustainable. About 2 billion peop...

Skip to main content Book World: Patricia Engels Infinite Country focuses on the psychological pain of a family split apart Jake Cline, The Washington Post March 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Patricia Engel - - - Patricia Engels novels dont begin so much as they crack open. Consider the first line of the Miami writers 2010 debut, "Vida": "It was the year my uncle got arrested for killing his wife, and our family was the subject of all the town gossip." The start of 2016s "The Veins of the Oc...

My impression is that Ross Douthat, a conservative op-ed columnist for the New York Times, is — despite what posters to the comments section on his columns might say — no Harry Lime. His latest book, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success is, however, somewhat Limean in its application of the Frontier thesis to humanity at large, and in its insistence on the connection between struggle, expansion, and progress. A substantial book by one of the more serious peop...