‘America’s Book’ Review: The Word Out of Season. For much of its history, American society was awash in the biblical ideas, themes, names and gimcrackery—for good and ill. By .

In “Spoken Word: A Cultural History,” Joshua Bennett traces the roots, rise and influence of a movement that continues to reverberate. By Tas Tobey When you purchase an independently reviewed ...

Book Review: 'The Word Is Murder' by Anthony Horowitz. By Richard Marcus, BLOGCRITICS.ORG June 6, 2018. We've all heard the saying about how hard it is to separate fact from fiction.

In his new book Craeft, the archaeologist and BBC presenter Alexander Langlands offers a fascinating and surprisingly relevant dive into a subject that might seem niche to many—the origins of ...

“The Last Word,” by Taylor Adams. Schoolteacher Emma Carpenter took the job three months ago for the solitude, to deal with her grief of losing a loved one and to avoid people.

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The literary history of the early years of word processing—the late 1960s through the mid-’80s—forms the subject of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s new book, Track Changes. The year 1984 was a ...

Book Review: As Good as my Word This book by former Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar offers a critique of institutions and covers a period marked by much tumult ...

This is the man who wants to work with Horowitz on the Cowper murder and also share 50-50 the profits of any book resulting. The question in the reader’s mind may be whether this is fictional ...