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10 New Books We Recommend This Week May 6, 2021 Our recommended books this week offer revisionist views of a couple of historical figures: In “The Invention of Miracles,” her biography of the often-lionized Alexander Graham Bell, the writer Katie Booth takes a dim view of his efforts to eradicate deafness and its culture, while in “The Bomber Mafia,” Malcolm Gladwell looks favorably on the much-criticized Gen. Curtis LeMay and his ruthless Japanese bombing campaign late in World War II. We also like a posthumous essay collection from the beloved travel writer Jan Morris and a new grap...

8 New Books We Recommend This Week March 11, 2021 Sometimes a book sells itself: Oh, Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel is a mournful allegory about artificial intelligence and the challenges of human connection? Sign me up, please! (But even if you’re on the same page, do make time to read Radhika Jones’s lovely review of the book; you’ll be glad you did.) Other times a good review makes all the difference. That was the case this week with Mary Roach’s wonderful take on “This Is the Voice,” by John Colapinto, an in-depth nonfiction book about the larynx. Trust me, you’ll want to read...

It had never happened before in this country. "We're going to take our country back!" was the battle cry of the day and has been the rebel yell of the radical right for some time. The question: Back from whom? Back to where? It looks a lot like the "Lost Cause" dating from the late 1800s and Reconstruction following the defeat of the South in the Civil War, repackaged for working-class white Americans who feel aggrieved. It also bears similarity to fascist movements and the failed 1923 Nazi coup known as the "Beer Hall Putsch." It is white nationalism. The attacking mob on Jan. 6, 2021, numbe...

Para-demolition bombs being dropped on supply warehouses and dock facilities at a port in Wonsan, North Korea by the Fifth Air Force's B-26 Invader light bombers (ca. 1951). From USAF (photo 306-PS-51(10303)), public holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 541959., Public Domain, Link. Tim Beal is a retired New Zealand academic who has written extensively on Asia with a special focus on the Korean peninsula. His most recent work is the entry on Korea for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialis...

In 1935, Arthur Porter, former newspaper publisher, educator, and Mayor of Rexburg, printed a book authored by Samuel M. Beal entitled “The Snake River Fork Country, A brief history of peaceful conquest in the Upper Snake River Basin.” Mr. Beal was an historian and professor at Ricks College, now BYU Idaho. His book contains chapters on the beginnings of the Upper Snake River Valley, its frontiersman, and LDS colonizers. Also, chapters on early transportation and communication, the Rexburg Stake of Zion, and social and economic developments. It includes a bibliography and an appendi...