book reviews

By Mary Swan

This week’s reviews: How to uncomplicate your life, an inside look at Russian royalty, and zingers from comedian Rob Delaney

A review of ’The Best of Mountain and Wilderness Writing’

A book review of ’The Sweetness of a Simple Life’

’The first full account’ of America’s role in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh

A review of ’The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution’

... and why do people think he’s the funniest person on Twitter?

Plus: inside Rupert Murdoch’s empire and how the health care system failed one writer’s parents

A chronicle of the food world that is equal parts engrossing and gross

By Fred Vogelstein