Dueling memoirs, one by Chris Hill and the other by Emma Sky, illuminate the Iraqi darkness when read together.

The source of the Japanese novelist’s allure for young people is also his failing—he’s only interested in what’s personal, not political.

The graffiti of Tsang Tsou-choi, the “The King of Kowloon”, testifies to memory in a time of forgetting and particularity in an age of abstraction.

An enjoyable and imaginative tour of America’s sozzled past.

India and China’s enmity has a long and complicated history, and may soon get much fiercer as they compete for control of the Indian Ocean.

Two books on spying home in on the “human factor” in high-profile espionage cases, one American and one Soviet.

The Hero in Heroin: A Mother and Son’s Journey on Both Sides of the Veilby Mindy MiraliaBalboa Press, 286 pp., $35.95 TAI: With me now is Mindy Miralia, author of a new book called The Hero in Heroin: A Mother and Son’s Journey on Both Sides of the Veil. Thanks for talking with us at […]

David Brooks’s latest book highlights a critical theme, but ends up lamenting one form of shallowness by dint of another.

The history of money is more than meets the eye: We shape it and then it shapes us.

Martha Derthick understood that an over-centralized Federal system can coexist with a relatively weak Executive, concocting a formula for American political dysfunction.