Eye on Books

Most books on how to improve your memory focus on how to recall names, faces, locker combinations, and the like.

Marilu Henner‘s book “Total Memory Makeover” uses an entirely different approach...

For over thirty years one of the great mysteries in contemporary American politics was the identity of Deep Throat, the shadowy source who helped Bob Woodward of the Washington Post uncover the Watergate scandal...

For 75 years the grisly and mysterious murder of a beautiful young woman has gone unsolved. Until now, perhaps.

It’s 1937 in the Chinese city then known as Peking. The victim is nineteen-year-old Pamela Werner, daughter of a former British consul to China. She has not just been killed, h...

Cambodian-born Loung Ung is the bestselling author of the memoirs “First They Killed My Father” and “Lucky Child.” But a few years ago she realized her story had not yet been fully told.In her new book “Lulu in the Sky,” Ung reconnects with her Cambodian...

The first woman president of an Ivy League university is a woman with a very, very troubled past, in the new Joyce Carol Oates novel “Mudwoman.”

Meredith “M.R.” Neukirchen is being tested in all sorts of ways, as she stands up to professional criticism, romantic uncertainty, a...

To younger Americans, Lyndon Johnson is almost the “invisible” president, a chief executive who had neither the smooth charisma of John F. Kennedy nor the foreign policy brilliance of Richard Nixon...

In 2010 thriller writer Brad Meltzer wrote a book that was more personal than any he’d ever written before. It was called “Heroes for My Son,” a collection of essays in tribute to dozens of men and women he thought would make excellent heroes for his own sons...

Most people would probably find forgiveness difficult, if not impossible, if they were subjected to a horrific terrorist attack that resulted in the deaths of many innocent people, and nearly cost them their own lives.

Yet …...

It is the last book in the Bible, probably the most interpreted, and certainly the most controversial.

The New Testament Book of Revelation is a mystery, as even the most learned Bible scholars disagree on the meanings of all the symbols, imagery, and prophecy...

A man lies in a permanent vegetative state after a near-fatal crash in Jodi Picoult‘s novel “Lone Wolf,” as his adult son and almost-adult daughter engage in a bitter fight over what is to become of him...