- 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.
- ‘Country Girl: A Memoir’ by Edna O’Brien
- ‘Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir” by Greg Bellow
- ‘Follow the Money: A Month in the Life of a Ten-Dollar Bill ’ by Steve Boggan
- ‘The New Mind of the South’ by Tracy Thompson
- ‘Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill’ by Michael Shelden
- ‘A History of Future Cities’ by Daniel Brook
- ‘Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain ’ by John Darwin
- ‘Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them’ by Betsy Prioleau
- ‘Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons’ by Fiona Deans Halloran
- ‘Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, an Autobiography’ by J.G. Ballard
- ‘P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ edited by Sophie Ratcliffe
- ‘The Atlantic Ocean: Reports from Britain and America’ by Andrew O’Hagan
- ‘The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America’ by James T. Patterson
- The John D. MacDonald novels, reissued
- Washington: A real city that has produced real literature
- My best books of the year
- “A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust” b y Mary Fulbrook
- “A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, andthe 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico” by Amy S. Greenberg
- “American Lady: The Life of Susan Mary Alsop ” by Caroline de Margerie , translated from the French by Christopher Murray
- “Sweet Tooth” by Ian McEwan
- “Klansville U.S.A: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan” by David Cunningham
- “The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail” by W. Jeffrey Bolster
- “Essays in biography” by Joseph Epstein
- “Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves” by Henry Wiencek
- Mo Yan: ‘Big Breasts & Wide Hips’
- “The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published” by David Skinner
- “The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis” by David G. Coleman
- ‘Joseph Anton: A Memoir’ by Salman Rushdie
- “Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal” by William H. Chafe
- “My American Revolution” by Robert Sullivan
- “Leaving Home: A Hollywood Blacklisted Writer’s Years Abroad” by Anne Edwards
- “On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World” by James Srodes
- “The Eighteen-Day Running Mate: McGovern, Eagleton, and a Campaign in Crisis” by Joshua M. Glasser
- “A Daughter’s Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill’s Youngest Child” by Mary Soames
- “London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550-1750” by Robert O. Bucholz and Joseph P. Ward
- “Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II” by Keith Lowe
- “Rome: An Empire’s Story” by Greg Woolf
- “Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov” by Geoffrey Roberts
- ‘Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady ,’ by Kate Summerscale
- “City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age” by P. D. Smith.
- “Paris In Love: A Memoir by Eloisa James”
- “The Life of Slang” by Julie Coleman
- Review of ‘The Last Natural’: New book on Nationals star Bryce Harper comes up short
- ‘China Hand: An Autobiography’ by John Paton Davies Jr.
- ‘A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman’ by Alice Kessler-Harris
- “Derby Day” by D.J. Taylor
- “The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food” by Josh Schonwald
- “Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner” by John Maxtone-Graham
- “The Astaires: Fred & Adele” by Kathleen Riley
- “The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans” by Lawrence N. Powell
- “Freedom’s Cap: The United States Capitol and the Coming of the Civil War” by Guy Gugliotta
- “The Story of Ireland: A History of the Irish People” by Neil Hegarty
- “The Journey of Mary Walker” by Sydney Nathans
- “History of a Pleasure Seeker” by Richard Mason
- “Anatomy of Injustice: A Murder Case Gone Wrong” by Raymond Bonner
- “Eisenhower in War and Peace” by Jean Edward Smith
- “Vulture Peak” by John Burdett
- “Rule and Ruin” by Geoffrey Kabaservice and “The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism” by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson
- “Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” by William Shawcross
- “Heinrich Himmler” by Peter Longerich
- “Pogo Through the Wild Blue Wonder: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 1” by Walt Kelly
- “A Slave in the White House,” by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor.
- Year-end picks
- “Gossip” by Joseph Epstein
- “A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France,” by Caroline Moorehead
- “On Rereading,” by Patricia Meyer Spacks
- “Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker,” by Wolcott Gibbs
- “Fenway 1912,” by Glenn Stout
- “My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir,” by Mark Whitaker
- “Rin Tin Tin,” by Susan Orlean, is a look at the dog of movie and TV fame.
- ‘Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins,’ by Thomas Smith
- “The Cut” by George Pelecanos
- Hugh Thomas’s “The Golden Empire: Spain, Charles V, and the Creation of America”
- Tom Scocca’s “Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future”
- “An Ideal Wine,” by David Darlington
- Jonathan Yardley reviews Precious Objects, by Alicia Oltuski
- “Red Summer,” by Cameron McWhirter, is about racial violence in the year 1919.
- ‘The Chitlin’ Circuit’ by Preston Lauterbach, about pre-rock black music.
- ‘Turn Right at Machu Picchu,’ by Mark Adams, is a travel book about the Peruvian historic site.
- Review of ‘Paris to the Past,’ by Ina Caro
- Carmela Ciuraru’s History of Pseudonyms
- “What a Wonderful World” is an appreciation of Louis Armstrong.
- Earl Swift’s “The Big Roads,” about American superhighways
- Yardley reviews ‘Daughters of the Revolution’
- “Saints and Sinners,” a new collection of stories by Edna O’Brien
- “Saints and Sinners,” a new collection of stories by Edna O’Brien
- Adam Hochschild’s “To End All Wars,” on World War I
- “In the Basement of the Ivory Tower” gets a failing grade
- In “The Perfect Nazi,” author Davidson examines truth about his German grandfather.
- Wendy McClure’s “The Wilder Life,” on “Little House on the Prairie”
- Review: Gary W. Gallagher’s “The Union War”
- Yardley: Joanna Trollope’s “Daughters-in-Law”
- Yardley reviews “No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf”
- Yardley: Michael Frayn’s “My Father’s Fortune”
- John F. Mariani’s “How Italian Food Conquered the World”
- Thomas E. Kennedy’s “Falling Sideways”
- Jonathan Gill's "Harlem"
- Yardley reviews Jonathan Gill's "Harlem"
- "The Letters of Bruce Chatwin"
- "The Letters of Bruce Chatwin"
- "Livia: Empress of Rome," by Matthew Dennison is a biography of Emperor Augustus' second wife.
- "Livia: Empress of Rome," by Matthew Dennison is a biography of Emperor Augustus' second wife.
- Rebel slaves, silenced
- Daniel Rasmussen's "American Uprising" a flawed account of 1811 slave rebellion
- Yardley reviews "Passport to Peking"
- Childhood in a minor key
- Review of Rodney Crowell's memoir "Chinaberry Sidewalks"
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