Books

While American leftists cry victim over alleged “book banning” in K-12 classrooms, far-left activists in Israel are showing the world what actual book banning looks like. Abigail Shrier’s bestseller went on sale in Israel this week. The…

Bureaucrats in President Joe Biden’s Department of Education just put their thumb on the scale of a book dispute in Georgia by not only smearing parents’ concerns about sexually explicit books in schools but also leveraging their federal…

Target is doubling down on its pro-trans kids’ clothes, North Face has deployed a gay drag queen to make a mockery of girls in the great outdoors, and propagandists are busy lying about “book bans” to gin up sympathy for pornographic…

A new book out Tuesday lifts the curtain on what the modern administrative state has become: a bureaucratic leviathan undermining representative systems of government — and it needs to be reined in. After a long career in civil service…

Shireen Qudosi is a longtime Muslim reformer, writer, and speaker on faith, identity, and belonging whose new book shows she has decided on a very bold reform project indeed: altering Islam into an essentially feminine religion. The…

In 1994, the puckish American literary critic Harold Bloom published his “The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages.” Included in the sprawling, bombastic tome was a controversial list of what Bloom considered to be the great…

America’s former horror master Stephen King has been striking out a lot lately, and not just on Twitter. I recently read one of his latest novels, Billy Summers, and was struck by what it revealed: an author trying to replay his greatest…

In “Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy,” Steven Powell has produced an uneven account of a writer who is equal parts a profane and politically incorrect performance artist and a talented novelist. The reader comes away from…

“Many years ago I realized that a book, a novel, is a dream that asks itself to be written in the same way we fall in love with someone.” That’s the opening of “The Shards,” Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel in over a decade. And just as…

When discussing the American founding, it is common to hear that the Founding Fathers were not Christian and not influenced by Christian ideas. This is patently untrue. Yet the anti-Christian scholarship of the past century,…