Julia M. Klein

Daniel J. Sharfstein offers luminescent account of Nez Perce tragedy in ‘Thunder in the Mountains’

May 9, 2019 at 11:30 p.m.

Native American tribes often aided white explorers and settlers on the way west. But gratitude and co-existence eventually gave way to the hunger for gold and land, leading to broken...

‘For us, this means hope’: Exploring the promise of genomic medicine

May 9, 2019 at 11:29 p.m.

Joselin Linder and members of the DeMoe family of North Dakota both lost genetic lotteries: They carry harmful inherited mutations that will impair, and likely curtail, their lives. But the...

Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt in Warm Springs, Ga., in 1929.

Eleanor Roosevelt biography focuses on her activities during World War II

May 9, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

Beloved and reviled, a spokeswoman for progressive causes who fashioned an independent life within a complicated marriage, Eleanor Roosevelt cuts a surprisingly contemporary figure. For several decades, Blanche Wiesen Cook,...

Ha Jin’s ‘The Boat Rocker’ is redeemed by the author’s own genuine anger

May 9, 2019 at 11:21 p.m.

The convulsions of modern China, the impact of political tyranny and the divided loyalties of the immigrant are among Ha Jin's great themes in an impressive body of award-winning fiction...

‘Forty Autumns’: A powerful family history covering both sides of the Berlin Wall

May 9, 2019 at 11:20 p.m.

American-born Nina Willner was 5 years old when she learned that her maternal grandmother, Oma, lived "behind a curtain," in East Germany. The so-called Iron Curtain was an ideologically charged...

Teddy Wayne’s ‘Loner’ presents dark, dangerous narrator

May 9, 2019 at 11:18 p.m.

Teddy Wayne could just as easily have titled his deft, involving novel — about a Harvard admissions mistake and his obsession with a lovely, preppie dorm-mate — "Stalker" or "Sociopath."...

‘The Latter Days’ by Judith Freeman is a memoir of Mormon life

May 9, 2019 at 11:12 p.m.

Judith Freeman was raised amid what she now regards as fictions: her Mormon faith, the myth of a happy childhood, the necessity of early marriage and motherhood. As suggested by...

"Labor of Love" by Moira Weigel and "Available" by Matteson Perry explore the precarious nature of dating and relationships.

Two new books explore the complexity of dating, love

May 9, 2019 at 11:10 p.m.

Is dating dead, a casualty of the hookup culture? So the media periodically declare, before abruptly reversing course and celebrating the proliferation of online dating apps and options. Moira Weigel's...

‘The Great Departure’ details forces behind Eastern European migration

May 9, 2019 at 11:02 p.m.

A century or so ago, at the age of 14, my maternal grandfather traveled alone to New York from present-day Belarus. He did well enough to finance the later arrivals...

As women choose to marry later, or not at all, they're reshaping what it means to be married in the United States, Rebecca Traister argues in her new book, "All the Single Ladies."

‘All the Single Ladies’ by Rebecca Traister: How unmarried women improve U.S. marriages

May 9, 2019 at 10:59 p.m.

It is a challenge to exult in being a single woman of a certain age. While other people's marriages seem to come in multiples, and their grandchildren proliferate, our lives...

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