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 ...

China is getting yet another high-elevation glass bridge made specifically for thrillseekers—except this time there won’t be any visible cables or tethers for reassurance. A series of bridges and ...

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 ...

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 ...