JERUSALEM: The Biography
Notable nonfiction of 2011
By Simon Sebag Montefiore (Knopf, $35)
Sebag, whose great-great uncle built Jerusalem’s first Jewish neighborhood outside the old city, offers a fact-rich account of the conquerors, empires and warlords who have taken turns ruling and ravaging the city. — Jackson Diehl
(University of Mississippi, $28)
A gorgeous memoir of a rural hotel made for the ruling Southern class, except there’s nothing much to rule anymore. — Carolyn See
THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL BECKETT, Vol. 2, 1941-1956
Edited by George Craig et al.
(Cambridge, $50)
This sumptuous volume, complete with lavishly detailed notes, yearly chronologies and an extensive biographical appendix, reveals Beckett during his most creative period. — Michael Dirda
LIFE ITSELF: A Memoir
By Roger Ebert (Grand Central, $27.99)
Ebert weaves tales from childhood, interviews with film stars and directors, funny and touching stories about colleagues in a series of loosely organized, often beautifully written essays. — Gerald Bartell
A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II,
By Mitchell Zuckoff (Harper, $26.99)
Zuckoff vividly reconstructs the remarkable tale of three survivors of a 1945 plane crash who were trapped in a jungle. — David Grann
LOVE AND CAPITAL: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
By Mary Gabriel (Little, Brown, $35)
Gabriel’s ambitious biography, a National Book Award finalist, gives us a more human and more flawed Karl Marx than the stern patriarch, intellectual giant and revolutionary theorist we have seen before. — Elaine Showalter
MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention
By Manning Marable (Viking, $30)
Marable’s portrait of Malcolm X, a National Book Award finalist, is not just a biography but also a history of Muslims in America and a sweeping account of one man’s transformation. — Wil Haygood
By Mira Bartok (Free Press, $25)
In this disturbing, beautiful book, Bartok, a prolific children’s author, recounts growing up in the shadow of her mother’s schizophrenia. — Reeve Lindbergh
MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
By Joshua Foer (Penguin Press, $26.95)
Drawing on both science and personal experience, Foer argues that in exchange for scientific progress, we may have traded away our most valuable resource: human memory. — Marie Arana
NEVER SAY DIE: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
By Susan Jacoby (Pantheon, $27.95)
Jacoby’s tough-minded and important book demolishes popular myths that we can “cure” the “disease” of aging. — Judith Viorst
THE NEXT CONVERGENCE: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
By Michael Spence (Farrar Straus Giroux, $27)
Spence, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, presents a nuanced, highly readable argument on the fraught relationship between today’s booming developing markets and the seemingly stagnant developed ones. — Daniel Gross
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Book review: Jane Gardam’s ‘Last Friends’
The final novel in the British writer’s wonderfully entertaining ‘Old Filth’ trilogy stands on its own.
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Great leadership books for your summer reading list
These books offer keen insights into leadership and management challenges, which on a day-to-day basis can bring their own dramas, twisting plot lines and, in this city, political intrigue.
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Harlequin to unveil new Cosmo Red-Hot Reads
Bestselling author Sylvia Day was paid at least $1 million to launch this new series of e-novellas.
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Alan Brennert’s nostalgia-laced fiction
The 20th-century family saga has a brisk pace, unencumbered by hurdles of richness or complexity.
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Book review: ‘The Fix,’ by Damian Thompson
How addiction is taking over your world, and how you are empowered to stop it.
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Book World: ‘My Life as a Weapon’ explores a superhero’s spare time
In comic series, writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja follow Avengers’ Hawkeye through daily life.
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Book review: Philipp Meyer’s ‘The Son’
The author of ‘American Rust’ is back with a spectacular saga about the settling of Texas and the flow of oil.
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'Apocalypse Cow,' by Michael Logan
In Logan's absurdist first novel, sex-crazed zombie bovines threaten the earth.
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Khaled Hosseini’s exquisite ‘And the Mountains Echoed’
The bestselling author of “The Kite Runner” returns with another powerful story about Afghanistan.
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Two thumbs up! (I hated it)
What do the blurbs on book jackets really mean?
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‘Minotaur,’ by Benjamin Tammuz
A man becomes obsessed with a teenage girl, but does that obsession lead him to murder?
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Adam Mansbach at the Gaithersburg Book Festival
The fourth annual book fair offered 100 authors and a dozen workshops.
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Book review: ‘The Golem and the Jinni,’ by Helene Wecker
Can modest golem and a mercurial jinni find love in Lower Manhattan?
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Book review: ‘Cheat the Clock’
A science writer for The Washington Post, Margaret Webb Pressler decided to unravel the mystery of her husband’s biology.
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