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Mystery: ‘Granite Harbor’ by Peter Nichols
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day agoEnglish-born Alex Brangwen, the hero of Peter Nichols’s “Granite Harbor,” and a former novelist, seems underqualified for his current job as the only...
‘Speed Capital’ Review: How the Indy 500 Was Born
The Wall Street Journal· 5 hours agoBrian Ingrassia’s “Speed Capital” has all the chills, spills and thrills that have come to define the Indianapolis 500 and the 21/2 -mile speedway where...
‘The Winner’ Review: Lessons in Ambition
The Wall Street Journal· 5 hours agoIn Teddy Wayne’s novel, a young man’s summer teaching tennis to the rich on Cape Cod puts him in deeper waters than he bargained for.
‘American Civil Wars’ Review: The Era of Continental Divides
The Wall Street Journal· 5 hours agoMore than 60,000 books have been published about the U.S. Civil War since 1865. Historians have...
‘The Student’ and ‘Brave New Words’: Teaching Teachers New Tricks
The Wall Street Journal· 5 hours agoThe U.S. has the world’s best universities and, it sometimes seems, the world’s worst students. This...
‘The Road to the Country’ Review: To War for Biafra
The Wall Street Journal· 6 hours agoChigozie Obioma’s novel follows two brothers into the inferno of Nigeria’s civil war.
‘Fat Leonard’ Review: Corrupting the U.S. Navy
The Wall Street Journal· 5 hours agoMany Americans have heard the name Fat Leonard. Mr. Whitlock weaves his story from more than 150 on-the-record interviews and “a bonanza of documents” he...
‘Pax Economica’ Review: When Free Trade Was Progressive
The Wall Street Journal· 6 hours agoRichard Cobden (1804-65) was a Victorian radical, a hugely influential British politician and...
‘Pilobolus’ Review: A Graceful Body of Work
The Wall Street Journal· 6 hours agoWhether it’s a gesture or an extension, a solo or a duet, or the combined energies of an ensemble, the aesthetic experience for the viewer can mark the...
‘The Infernal Machine’ Review: The Language of Violence
The Wall Street Journal· 5 hours agoSpurred by the rise of Osama bin Laden and a new wave of Islamic terrorists in the 1990s, the last...
