Where Barbie presented a grown-up future, the American Girl dolls and their companion books encouraged children to be children, writes Nicole Schrag wsj.com/arts-culture/books/a…

Fall Books: The Gold Rush, the beauty of bogs, Larry David’s comedy, a Hemingway masterpiece and more from our collection of the season’s noteworthy books. wsj.com/arts-culture/books/f…

Pundits and academics theorizing about Justice Samuel Alito’s aims would profit from reading his speeches, writes Barton Swaim wsj.com/arts-culture/books/s…

In Arthur R.G. Solmssen’s novel, a roundtable meant to promote postwar rebuilding gets co-opted by realpolitik, writes Michael O’Donnell wsj.com/arts-culture/books/a…

David M. Rubenstein, who acquired the Baltimore Orioles in 2024 for $1.7 billion, sought insight from his peers about successful team ownership, writes David M. Shribman wsj.com/sports/baseball/insi…

The author of “Pachinko” follows members of a Korean-American family as they find careers in the world of supplementary education, writes Sam Sacks wsj.com/arts-culture/books/f…

14 Books We Read This Week: The Hindenburg disaster, wonder drugs, Marian Anderson’s voice, a rock ’n’ roll alternate history and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/books/1…

Neal Schore argues that paying attention to emotions is the most important element in an efficient workday, writes Barbara Spindel wsj.com/arts-culture/books/t…

"Profits, Prophets, Coaches, and Kings" Review: Successful Circumstances Favorable weather aided Genghis Khan’s conquests. Bill Belichick won six Super Bowls with the Patriots but also had Tom Brady, writes Andrew Stark wsj.com/arts-culture/books/p…

Francis Fukuyama looks back on the book that put his ideas on the world stage—and the misunderstanding that has dogged him since, writes @tunkuv wsj.com/arts-culture/books/i…

Roy Cohn was Sen. Joe McCarthy’s fixer and for decades a gifted attention-seeker. The tendency to overstate his influence lives on, writes Philip Terzian wsj.com/arts-culture/books/a…

Music in the U.S. has flowed from political upheaval and produced social change, but not always in the ways we might expect, writes David Skinner wsj.com/arts-culture/books/o…

Eliza’s creator aimed to fool people into seeing a machine as humanlike then show them how they’d been fooled. The illusion worked too well, writes Matthew Hutson wsj.com/arts-culture/books/i…

The Five Nations of the Iroquois allied with several English colonies. The threat was hostile French territory to the north, writes Stephen Brumwell wsj.com/arts-culture/books/e…

Five Best Books From Marilyn Monroe’s Library: The actress’s book collection represented the literary fashions of her day. It also reflected Monroe’s own ambition to be seen as an artist, writes Gail Crowther wsj.com/arts-culture/books/f…

14 Books We Read This Week: The history of the humble comma, Paul Simon in Africa, Eric Hobsbawm’s faith and more. wsj.com/arts-culture/books/1…

Gurus claim that smoking the secretions of certain toads offers a path to the divine. Others have had less sublime experiences, writes Dave Shiflett wsj.com/arts-culture/books/t…

Tennis has moved on from a golden age of champions to welcome new stars. Yet the veterans refuse to surrender to the upstarts, writes Michael O’Donnell wsj.com/arts-culture/books/t…

The author of “Courage Can Save US,” @ryebarcott, shares his five best books on everyday heroes, starting with “With the Old Breed.” @with_honoraction Read the full lineup here: on.wsj.com/4yHJvNB

15 Books We Read This Week: Evolution’s design studio, constructing the Capitol, the fiction of William Golding and more. wsj.com/opinion/free-express…