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A dive into Bob Dylan’s late career has produced the best book on the musician in ages. Review by Wesley Stace ...

With his outstanding “The Hard Line,” Mark Greaney’s trademark style — his intense plotting emphasizing fast-and-furious action that taps into the changing political environment — continues to reshape ...

Mark Haddon, the best-selling author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” was an anxious and depressed child. He was afraid of sharks and airplanes, getting sucked into escalators ...

According to Peter C. Grace in “The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA,” such bookworms did indeed play a role at the height of the Cold War—if not in saving the ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

One day in January 1766, a scruffy visitor turns up at Prince of Wales’ Fort, a remote trading post of the Hudson’s Bay Company in what is now northern Manitoba. Patterson is a fur trader, but on this ...

Imagine the pressure for the next book to live up to its big sister. In “An American Marriage,” Jones’s central character, Celestial, tested by the cruelty of circumstance, infidelity, and the ...