Clear-eyed works of history and analysis—and a moving memoir of captivity—offered insights that transcended headlines.

Our reviewers select the year’s outstanding books. Plus, 50 luminaries from politics, business and the arts share what they ...

Boris Johnson’s memoir was one of the year’s most anticipated books - PA Never mind the General Election and change of government: there were few bigger stories in politics this year than the ...

Showing the range of Duke scholarship, new books by university authors providing a variety of reading materials, from poetry and first novels to memoirs and scholarship on public policy issues ...

Large majorities of Americans think poorly of Congress and have done so for decades. Many members themselves get elected by expressing contempt for what the institution has become, but once in office ...

Navigate your way around the goings-on in Parliament, with these insights into the processes and personalities in the corridors of power. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News ...

Arch Campbell and Pat Collins are two of DC’s more prominent retired TV news figures, and though they were colleagues at NBC4, these days they’re embroiled in a (friendly) literary rivalry: They’re ...

WASHINGTON — As a child, I had a very specific taste in novels. I wanted to read historical fiction about Black girls and stories about challenging authority. I was also drawn to books that my mother ...

This year’s political books were dominated by the down­fall of the Conservatives. Nadine Dorries’s The Plot (HarperCollins, £25) – which chron­icles the collapse of Boris Johnson’s government – spots ...

Democrats swept a school board election in Bucks County after Republicans instituted book bans and other changes. But the right-wing “parental rights” movement has left an indelible mark. By Dana ...

The escalating red-state efforts to ban more books mark a new stage in the struggle to control the educational experience of America’s kaleidoscopically diverse younger generations. Though battles ...

NASHVILLE — As politics move from school board meetings into classrooms, what students are taught and what they are reading has become more controversial. Partisan battle lines were drawn in a ...