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Our critic on four excellent new novels.

A Brookings Institution scholar, he advised presidents and wrote books on the media (assessing reporters in one) and government (including a study of beleaguered press officers).

Our columnist read “The Everlasting” too late to put it on her Best of 2025 list. She’s sorry!

Swoony reads will transport you from the doldrums of winter to a Caribbean resort, a Hamptons beach, the streets of Paris and more.

“Plain and Simple,” her best-selling 1989 book, was a go-to text of the anti-materialist movement known as voluntary simplicity.

Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman addicted to shopping.

In “Doctor Dolittle’s Delusion,” he argued that language is a biological system unique to humans, despite the widespread belief that it extended to other animals.

A family’s forgotten copy of Superman No. 1, from 1939, was sold by Heritage Auctions.

A family’s forgotten copy of Superman No. 1, from 1939, was $9.12 million, with fees.

Our columnist on three books worth your time.