The meeting place of facts, ego, ignorance and politics typically is a messy arena as Tim Weiner illustrates over and over in this powerful account of the Central Intelligence Agency actions since the ...

About the good or bad of democracy, Hamid is clear about his mixed, and constantly evolving feelings. The bet here is that in ...

In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek philosopher offers a blueprint for an ethical life.

A step forward in integration between print and online has been made by the Book Review of El Mercurio from Chile, offering its readers excerpts from books on the Web. The idea is to show an icon ...

Notable about Sgt. Pepper’s is that “A Day In the Life” (it frequently comes in at #1 in the holiday weekend playback of the ...

In May, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Safekeep,” Yael van der Wouden’s novel about a woman wrapped up in a historical drama and a forbidden romance.