Timeless Storytelling

Don’t pigeonhole historical novelists.

Dollars & Derring-Do

Financial thrillers are fun — even when their plots are trumped by real life.

From Page to Screen…and Back

The joy of bingeing book-inspired TV in the time of corona.

Modernizing Money

A new book explains how a formerly fringe theory works during a mainstream pandemic.

A Largely Teutonic Tale

Two recent works examine the roots of the E.U. conundrum.

Binge-Reading for a Lockdown

A Gallic antidote to the pandemic.

Midnight in Berlin?

Of hunting real-life Nazis, and other German stories.

Have Guide, Will Travel

Old-fashioned handbooks take you further than you think.