Books

Geography professor Charles Watkins traces mankind’s endless fascination with trees in his fact-crammed history

Plum Johnson’s family memoir changed as she cleared out the family house

Humphreys’ new novel tells a story that moves from a POW camp in Germany to the London area

In her award-winning memoir, Helen Macdonald shares memories of training a mercurial goshawk after the death of her father

Actually, Atlantis has been found several times, but you can’t say that if you’re writing a book about looking for it.

As a Nobel laureate from Beijing who isn’t a dissident, author Mo Yan is in a lonely club. His new book helps clarify things.

Book review: John Hooper is perfectly situated to explain the intricacies of Italy’s delicate national identity

Book review: Mohsin Hamid’s book of essays works to reconcile the liberation of globalization with feelings of rootlessness

Book review: Stephen Marche’s book perfectly expresses the rapacious ferocity of capitalism—without hokey tropes

Drawing on his sense of ‘mad belonging,’ M.G. Vassanji crafted an insider’s account of his place of birth