WHAT is the point of a Lent book? I suppose there is more than one answer to that: to quicken the soul, to awaken the ...

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As always, she’s right. Ron Charles reviews books and writes the Book Club newsletter for The Washington Post. He is the book critic for “CBS Sunday Morning.” ...

From “Barbershop” and “Beauty Shop” to “Shear Madness” and “Steel Magnolias,” hair emporia have served for years as great settings for plays and movies. They’re community staples ...

Conveying the intricate world of Theyyam to new readers poses a challenge as most existing books—primarily in Malayalam, with a few in English—tend to focus narrowly on specific narratives or offer ...

Leave it be. Enjoy the show. Let a good thing be a good thing. This 12-team College Football Playoff format works beautifully. Byes should continue to be reserved for conference champions.

Thomas Piketty, of the Paris School of Economics, was dubbed the “rock star economist” after his book Capital in the 21st Century was published in 2014. It was remarkable that a 700-page ...

Roving Eye is the Book Review’s essay series on international writers of the past whose works warrant a fresh look, often in light of reissued, updated or newly translated editions of their books.

After all, as Mr. Tonelli suggests in the subtitle to his book, matter is a “magnificent illusion.” Mr. Tonelli bookends “Matter,” with personal reminiscences and etymological asides that ...

That 230-page book was described in reviews as “offering little that is new” but where Francis “leans on historical events as backdrops to make appeals relating to current, sometimes similar ...