Experiences significantly impact people’s lives, shaping their ideas, values, and emotional depth. Authors often rely on their own lives and the experiences of others to produce rich, realistic novels ...

RAILWAY AGE, MARCH 2024 ISSUE: William H. Galligan’s remarkable book on the history of a remarkable railroad, Kansas City Southern, isn’t a pure history book. Instead, it’s a chronicle of a company ...

In “The Country of the Blind,” Andrew Leland explores the history, the culture and the experiences of blind people. By Robert Ito In 2019, Andrew Leland began writing a book about blindness, even as ...

Marcel Proust was perhaps the most sensitive novelist of the 20th century, uncannily and unforgettably attuned to smells (“smells lazy and punctual as a village clock, roving and settled, heedless and ...

PATRIOTIC GORE (816 pp.)—Edmund Wilson—Oxford ($8.50). Historians never seem to tire of running over the same Civil War battlegrounds. They have fought and refought the great campaigns, while often ...