The Associated Press will no longer produce book reviews, though it will pursue stories about the publishing industry.

We’re halfway through 2025 and we at The Book Review have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are very good. And then there are the following.

In the first column I wrote for this newspaper, I covered three novels. One of those books was by James Lee Burke.

ENOUGH IS ENUF: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell, by Gabe Henry PRONOUN TROUBLE: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words, by John McWhorter ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in an age of book bans, how powerful stories — and reading — can be.