‘No Property in Man’: An Exchange
To the Editors: Nicholas Guyatt’s review of my No Property in Man charges that the book isn’t really a work of history at all but, at...
Percy’s Debt to Pepys
To the Editors: Jenny Uglow’s “Big Talkers” describes Thomas Percy as the “first collector of English Ballads.” However, Claire Tomalin’s biography of Samuel Pepys notes Pepys’s...
The Value of a Cell
To the Editors: I am not sure how your reviewer Gavin Francis took away from my book, The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics and the Human Costs...
Karen Russell’s Oddly Hopeful Stories of Ghosts, Dead Bodies, Devils, and Disasters
Snowflakes, I’ve recently learned, are all born the same—every ice crystal starts out with the same hexagonal structure. The reason they wind up as one-of-a-kind masterpieces...
Losing Faith and Finding Fantasy at Harry Potter World
I do not believe in magic. I don’t see a need for it. A belief in magic negates how complicated the world actually is. There is...
5 Unclassifiable Books by Women, Recommended by Kathryn Scanlan
It’s hard to explain Kathryn Scanlan’s book Aug 9—Fog. It’s archival, reproducing text from a found diary. It’s transformative, rearranging lines from that diary like a...
4 of the Best Books About D-Day to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary
“Two kinds of people are staying on this beach—the dead and those who are going to die.” Those are the famous words spoken by Colonel George...
5 Great Picture Books for Daddy-Daughter Reading Time
Father’s Day is often overshadowed by Mother’s Day in both life and literature, but the relationship between father and child is just as important, especially when...
Your Guide To GAME OF THRONES Myers-Briggs Personality Types
There are 16 Myers-Briggs personality types, and there’s a Game of Thrones character who fits each one. For those of you who haven’t heard of Myers-Briggs...
