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JD Vance has new book about his religious faith, ‘Communion,’ out late spring

April 11, 2026 Hillel Italie

Vice President JD Vance has a new book coming out that will explore his religious faith and his conversion to Catholicism as an adult. “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” comes out June 16, […]

Barbara Kingsolver returns with ‘Partita,’ her first novel since ‘Demon Copperhead’

February 28, 2026 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — For her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Demon Copperhead,” Barbara Kingsolver is taking on a subject she rarely discussed in public while growing up in a small Kentucky town: classical music. […]

Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘The American Way of Killing’ to be released in September

February 14, 2026 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — “The Tipping Point” author Malcolm Gladwell’s next book will focus on a long-running tragedy in the country’s culture, gun violence. “The American Way of Killing” will come out Sept. 29, Little, Brown […]

Rachel Goldberg-Polin’s memoir recounts her journey after son’s abduction by Hamas

January 31, 2026 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — Rachel Goldberg-Polin, who has become known worldwide for her advocacy on behalf of her son and others abducted by Hamas-led militants on Oct. 7, 2023, has a memoir coming out this spring. […]

Min Jin Lee’s ‘Pachinko’ follow-up, ‘American Hagwon,’ will explore Korean education obsession

January 24, 2026 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK— Min Jin Lee’s first novel since her million-selling “Pachinko” is a long book that grew out of a basic question: What do Koreans care most about? “We’re obsessed with education, and it became […]

Apatow shares comedic life with illuminating scrapbook memoir ‘Comedy Nerd’

November 2, 2025 Mark Kennedy

NEW YORK — Judd Apatow likes to keep stuff. He even goes as far as to say he’s a hoarder. But unlike a regular hoarder, he insists all the things he keeps are awesome — […]

Raymond Chandler’s ‘Nightmare’ revealed in rarely seen sketch

October 11, 2025 Hillel Italie

NEW YORK — In his dreams, Raymond Chandler could conjure tales as unsettling as some of his greatest novels, as if haunted by the spirits of Kafka and Edgar Allan Poe. “Nightmare,” a brief and […]

Book review: Literary mystery meets dystopian future in Ian McEwan’s ‘What We Can Know’

October 4, 2025 Jill Lawless

LONDON — When novelists look to the future, the view is often grim. There are a lot more fictional dystopias than utopias. Ian McEwan has good news and bad news about what lies ahead in […]

Book Review: Evidence of historian David McCullough’s curiosity abounds in ‘History Matters’

September 20, 2025 Andrew DeMillo

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough told an audience in 2012 that writing history was like working on a detective case. “And once on the case, you want to know more and more and […]

Book Review: Stranger stalks novelist on book tour in ‘All This Could Be Yours’

September 13, 2025 Bruce DeSilva

Author Hank Phillippi Ryan has written a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours” about an author on tour to promote a crime novel titled “All This Could Be Yours.” As Ryan says in […]