Nonfiction books are a crucial bulwark against the surging public culture of “alternative facts,” outright lies, and the brazen embrace of ignorance. These developments suggest a rough future for a ...

The Washington Monthly is pleased to welcome nominations for the 2025 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing. The ...

China Books Review, a digital literary review magazine published by Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and The Wire China, has announced the shortlists for its annual Baifang Schell Book ...

With 44 million book titles around the world and roughly $28 billion in revenue from book sales, Amazon has become a go-to source for readers, for better or worse. People purchase around 780–800 ...

McGee charts Apple’s development into a design and manufacturing powerhouse dangerously “dependent” on the profitable relationships and supply chain networks it’s helped to create in China. This is an ...

The beloved and brilliant books editor of the Washington Monthly, Kukula (“Kuku” to her legions of friends and fans) made the book review section the home of some of the magazine’s best thinking and ...

Ruth, the impish narrator of Kate Riley’s debut novel, is born into a little and little-known Anabaptist sect in Michigan. Riley, drawing on her own experience, feels no rush to lay out the group’s ...

Steven Rosenbaum started writing his book The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality in 2022, around when ChatGPT launched. Initially he didn’t use it at all, “But as the writing moved forward into ...