American Children’s Reading Skills Reach New Lows
The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the ...
Practicing for When the Bombs Fall in ‘A Knock on the Roof’
In a new solo play about ordinary people under bombardment in Gaza, a woman rehearses how she would escape her building if ...
White House Press Secretary Makes Steely and Unflinching Debut
Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant.
Betty Shamieh’s ‘Too Soon’ is right on time
The Guggenheim fellow’s debut novel follows a director reluctantly staging an Arabic translation of “Hamlet” in Palestine.
Historical Fiction Imbued With a Rich Sense of Place
Our columnist on four stellar new releases. Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first ...
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Book of the Week: The mermaid who stopped wearing lipstick
An epic review of a memoir so good that it really, absolutely ought to appear on tomorrow's Ockham awards longlist for best nonfiction ...
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Elie Wiesel’s defiant faith
“How can you not believe in God after Auschwitz?” A rabbi put this question to Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, ...
Subprime Mortgages Destroyed Them. Who Paid the Price?
In “The Killing Fields of East New York,” Stacy Horn profiles one 1990s white-collar crime spree and the wreckage it left ...