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"Labor of Love" by Moira Weigel and "Available" by Matteson Perry explore the precarious nature of dating and relationships.

Two new books explore the complexity of dating, love

May 9, 2019 at 6:10 p.m.

Is dating dead, a casualty of the hookup culture? So the media periodically declare, before abruptly reversing course and celebrating the proliferation of online dating apps and options. Moira Weigel's...

‘The Great Departure’ details forces behind Eastern European migration

May 9, 2019 at 6:02 p.m.

A century or so ago, at the age of 14, my maternal grandfather traveled alone to New York from present-day Belarus. He did well enough to finance the later arrivals...

As women choose to marry later, or not at all, they're reshaping what it means to be married in the United States, Rebecca Traister argues in her new book, "All the Single Ladies."

‘All the Single Ladies’ by Rebecca Traister: How unmarried women improve U.S. marriages

May 9, 2019 at 5:59 p.m.

It is a challenge to exult in being a single woman of a certain age. While other people's marriages seem to come in multiples, and their grandchildren proliferate, our lives...

‘Great Is the Truth’: Amos Kamil explores Horace Mann sex abuse scandal

May 9, 2019 at 5:47 p.m.

It was impossible to read "Great is the Truth: Secrecy, Scandal, and the Quest for Justice at the Horace Mann School," Amos Kamil and Sean Elder's investigation into decades of...

Review: ‘Lafayette in the Somewhat United States’ by Sarah Vowell

May 9, 2019 at 5:47 p.m.

It's easy enough to gather what Sarah Vowell is after in "Lafayette in the Somewhat United States," her digressive, jokey account of the Marquis de Lafayette's impact on the American...

Feminist, journalist and political activist Gloria Steinem, seen here with Ethel Scull and Betty Friedan, doesn't give a full account in her memoir, "My Life on the Road."

Gloria Steinem’s memoir misses a few stops

May 9, 2019 at 5:46 p.m.

A new book by Gloria Steinem is major publishing news, and a memoir seems an especially tantalizing endeavor. A co-founder of Ms. magazine and longtime feminist activist and organizer, the...

"Fear of Flying" author Erica Jong returns with "Fear of Dying," in which a heroine is 60 and seeking sexual adventure, only to be counseled caution by "Flying's" Isadora Wing.

Review: ‘Fear of Dying’ by Erica Jong

May 9, 2019 at 5:40 p.m.

Before picking up "Fear of Dying," I returned to the novel it references — the mega-best-seller that transformed Erica Jong into a literary and feminist icon. Published in 1973, at...

"Avenue of Spies" by Alex Kershaw looks at work undertaken by American doctor Sumner Jackson, his wife Toquette, and son Phillip, during the French Resistance.

Review: ‘Avenue of Spies’ by Alex Kershaw

May 9, 2019 at 5:36 p.m.

Were it not for love, much of the story that Alex Kershaw relates so powerfully in "Avenue of Spies: A True Story of Terror, Espionage, and One American Family's Heroic...

In "The Seven Good Years," Israeli author Etgar Keret puts his family story, including the birth of his son and death of his father, to the service of virtuosic writing.

Review: ‘The Seven Good Years’ by Etgar Keret

May 9, 2019 at 5:31 p.m.

Between the birth of his son Lev and the death of his father — the eponymous seven good years — Etgar Keret seems to have spent much of his time...

Andrew Jackson's American Indian removal policy is the focal point of Steve Inskeep's deeply researched book, "Jacksonland."

Review: ‘Jacksonland’ by Steve Inskeep

May 9, 2019 at 5:28 p.m.

In the fledgling days of the United States, two distinct maps co-existed: the white man's, divided into states and territories, and the American Indian's, denoting the land claimed by native...

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