MAC: Slate has asked us—indeed hired us—to talk about their big picture-book package, “The 25 Best Picture Books of the Past 25 Years.” (Did you like how I called it a “package”? Did it make me sound ...

We’re halfway through 2025, and we at the Book Review have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are very good. And then there are the ones that just won’t let ...

Another year in publishing is officially in the books, and as December draws to a close, the industry engages in its time-honored tradition: proclaiming which titles deserve the honor of “best books ...

This year's best higher education books include a defense of faculty tenure, an expose of scientific fraud, advice on how students should search for a college, suggestions for how they can make the ...