Jonathan Yardley

"Dangerous Games"

Michael Dirda

"The Sweet Science and Other Writings"
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Ron Charles

"A Monster's Notes"
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Recommended Reading

Book World presents its list of good books, including John Crowley's "Four Freedoms."

• Also: Summer Reading Issue

Bright Lights, Smaller City

Grant Ginder trades New York for D.C. in a send-up of the Jay McInerney classic novel.

• New Short Stories

Faith in the Electorate

Shaun Casey's "The Making of Catholic President" takes us through a breakthrough campaign, John F. Kennedy's run for the presidency.

• "Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures With Coca-Cola" By Mark Thomas
• "God Is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Will Change the World" By John Micklethwait and Adrian Wollridge
• "Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend" By Larry Tye | Read an Excerpt

Getting History Right

Margaret MacMillan illustrates how mischaracterizations of past events have doomed political and military objectives.

• "The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel's Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship" By James Scott
• "'What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?': Jimmy Carter, America's 'Malaise,' and the Speech That Should Have Changed the Country" By Kevin Mattson
• "Chasing Icarus: The Seventeen Days in 1910 That Forever Changed American Aviation" By Gavin Mortimer

• Post Magazine: Summer Reading Issue
• Book Review: 'In the Sanctuary of Outcasts,' by Neil White
• Washington Area Literary Calendar: July 10-19
• Poet's Choice by April Bernard
• Appreciation: Vassily Aksyonov
• Grisham to Write 'Norfolk 4' Screenplay
• Online Teasers Precede New Dan Brown Novel
• After Half-Century on the Hill, Beloved Trover Shop Comes to the Last Chapter

Coming to Style: July 6 - July 11

• Monday: "The Devil's Punchbowl, by Greg Iles
• Tuesday: "You or Someone Like You," by Chandler Burr
• Wednesday: "Satchel," by Larry Tye | "This Is How It Starts," by Grant Ginder | Roundup of Short Stories
• Thursday: "The Devil's Company," by David Liss
• Friday: "Been Here a Thousand Years," by Mariolina Venezia
• Saturday: "Shanghai Girls," by Lisa See | (See the Style section on Sat.)

Coming to Outlook: Sun., July 19

• The men who went to the Moon 40 years ago.
• The castaways who inspired Shakespeare.
• The birth of modern politics.
• Henry Ford's unrealized utopia.
• And the East and the West make whoopee.