Once, as I sat listening to a lengthy wedding toast, a writer friend of the bride leaned toward me and deadpanned, "There's a reason for word counts." Such was my initial thought when Julie Orringer's ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Ronald Reagan signs autographs after a 1976 campaign speech in Los Angeles. Photo by George Rose/Getty Images If anyone is able to buy a copy of Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge, we’ll know that ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Not since Edmund Morris’s bizarre semi-fictional biography of Ronald Reagan has there been such a deeply disappointing Reagan book as Rick Perlstein’s The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the ...

When a novel begins with Jewish characters in late 1930s Europe, there is an excellent chance that one road — train tracks, actually — will lead to Auschwitz, as almost inevitably occurs in Julie ...

If you’re still looking for a “big” novel to carry into the summer holidays — one in which you can lose yourself without the guilty suspicion that you’re slumming — then Julie Orringer’s “The ...