Dueling memoirs, one by Chris Hill and the other by Emma Sky, illuminate the Iraqi darkness when read together.

The source of the Japanese novelist’s allure for young people is also his failing—he’s only interested in what’s personal, not political.

The graffiti of Tsang Tsou-choi, the “The King of Kowloon”, testifies to memory in a time of forgetting and particularity in an age of abstraction.

An enjoyable and imaginative tour of America’s sozzled past.

David Brooks’s latest book highlights a critical theme, but ends up lamenting one form of shallowness by dint of another.

The history of money is more than meets the eye: We shape it and then it shapes us.

New collections of classic works by Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters enable a better appreciation of a beloved but understudied genre of American music.

Bored of writing about the Kim regime’s antics, two veteran journalists offer a rich portrait of ordinary life in North Korea—how people dress, date, work, and play.

The humble Jewish peddler, in bringing his wares to the hinterlands of the new world, played a surprisingly important role in shaping modern American society.

The classic Ron Shelton film Bull Durham (1988) takes its hero on a Dantean journey from purgatory to paradise.