Books

There may be no new stories from Alice Munro, but there are plenty of new theories

An effort to return general Douglas MacArthur to his former glory

A review of ’Capital: A portrait of Delhi in the twenty-first century’ by Rana Dasgupta

Review of Here Comes the Night shows the painful side of rhythm and blues

Review of Casebook, the latest novel from Mona Simpson

Review of A Mad Catastrophe

Author Nicholas Wade argues that human genetic differences have played a powerful role in the success and failure of societies

This week’s reviews: A Houdini novel with an amazing reveal, a new biography of John Wayne and an epic history of Athens

A review of ’The Confabulist’ by Steven Galloway

A review of ’No Good Men Among the Living’ by Anand Gopal