Jonathan Yardley
Jonathan Yardley
Critic
Jonathan Yardley has been the book critic of The Washington Post since 1981. That same year he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism. He is the author of six books, and a seventh — a collection of his "Second Reading" columns for The Post — will be published in the summer of 2011.

Latest by Jonathan Yardley

“On Dupont Circle”

“On Dupont Circle”

Franklin Roosevelt and his early circle of progressive freinds.

“The Eighteen-day Running Mate”

“The Eighteen-day Running Mate”

Joshua M. Glasser explores George McGovern’s ill-fated selection of Thomas Eagleton as his running mate in 1972.

“A Daughter’s Tale”

“A Daughter’s Tale”

The daughter of Winston Churchill recounts her life.

“London”

“London”

Robert Bucholz and Joseph Ward examine how a city in a fringe country became a global, imperial city.