Jonathan Yardley: Most Recent Articles and Archives

‘Forty-one False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers’ by Janet Malcolm

(The Washington Post, May 24, 2013; 6:03 PM)

‘Country Girl: A Memoir’ by Edna O’Brien

(The Washington Post, May 10, 2013; 5:20 PM)

‘Saul Bellow’s Heart: A Son’s Memoir” by Greg Bellow

(The Washington Post, May 3, 2013; 5:32 PM)

‘Follow the Money:

(The Washington Post, April 7, 2013; 12:29 PM)

‘The New Mind of the South’ by Tracy Thompson

(The Washington Post, March 22, 2013; 7:19 PM)

‘Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill’ by Michael Shelden

(The Washington Post, March 15, 2013; 7:17 PM)

‘A History of Future Cities’ by Daniel Brook

(The Washington Post, March 8, 2013; 5:17 PM)

‘Unfinished Empire:

(The Washington Post, March 1, 2013; 5:42 PM)

‘Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them’ by Betsy Prioleau

(The Washington Post, February 22, 2013; 5:04 PM)

‘Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons’ by Fiona Deans Halloran

(The Washington Post, February 15, 2013; 10:28 PM)

‘Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, an Autobiography’ by J.G. Ballard

(The Washington Post, February 8, 2013; 6:34 PM)

‘P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters’ edited by Sophie Ratcliffe

(The Washington Post, February 1, 2013; 5:24 PM)

‘The Atlantic Ocean: Reports from Britain and America’ by Andrew O’Hagan

(The Washington Post, January 25, 2013; 7:39 PM)

‘The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America’ by James T. Patterson

(The Washington Post, January 18, 2013; 6:47 PM)

The John D. MacDonald novels, reissued

(The Washington Post, January 12, 2013; 4:25 PM)

Washington: A real city that has produced real literature

(The Washington Post, January 9, 2013; 7:44 PM)

My best books of the year

(The Washington Post, December 8, 2012; 5:31 PM)

“A Small Town Near Auschwitz:

(The Washington Post, November 30, 2012; 7:22 PM)

“A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, andthe 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico” by Amy S. Greenberg

(The Washington Post, November 24, 2012; 2:12 PM)

“American Lady:

(The Washington Post, November 17, 2012; 4:05 PM)

“Sweet Tooth” by Ian McEwan

(The Washington Post, November 9, 2012; 7:05 PM)

“Klansville U.S.A: The Rise and Fall of the

(The Washington Post, November 2, 2012; 6:31 PM)

“The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail” by W. Jeffrey Bolster

(The Washington Post, October 27, 2012; 12:22 PM)

“Essays in biography” by Joseph Epstein

(The Washington Post, October 20, 2012; 11:21 AM)

“Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves” by Henry Wiencek

(The Washington Post, October 13, 2012; 11:55 AM)

Mo Yan: ‘Big Breasts & Wide Hips’

(The Washington Post, October 11, 2012; 1:25 PM)

“The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published” by David Skinner

(The Washington Post, October 6, 2012; 1:56 PM)

“The Fourteenth Day: JFK and the Aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis” by David G. Coleman

(The Washington Post, September 28, 2012; 6:00 PM)

‘Joseph Anton: A Memoir’ by Salman Rushdie

(The Washington Post, September 16, 2012; 9:49 AM)

“Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal” by William H. Chafe

(The Washington Post, September 7, 2012; 7:38 PM)

“My American Revolution” by Robert Sullivan

(The Washington Post, August 24, 2012; 7:39 PM)

“Leaving Home: A Hollywood Blacklisted Writer’s Years Abroad” by Anne Edwards

(The Washington Post, August 17, 2012; 7:58 PM)

“On Dupont Circle: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and the Progressives Who Shaped Our World” by James Srodes

(The Washington Post, August 10, 2012; 6:52 PM)

“The Eighteen-Day Running Mate: McGovern, Eagleton, and a Campaign in Crisis” by Joshua M. Glasser

(The Washington Post, August 4, 2012; 12:58 PM)

“A Daughter’s Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill’s Youngest Child” by Mary Soames

(The Washington Post, July 21, 2012; 1:22 PM)

“London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550-1750” by Robert O. Bucholz and Joseph P. Ward

(The Washington Post, July 13, 2012; 5:13 PM)

“Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II” by Keith Lowe

(The Washington Post, July 7, 2012; 1:19 PM)

“Rome: An Empire’s Story” by Greg Woolf

(The Washington Post, June 29, 2012; 6:44 PM)

“Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov” by Geoffrey Roberts

(The Washington Post, June 23, 2012; 2:18 PM)

‘Mrs. Robinson’s Disgrace:

(The Washington Post, June 15, 2012; 6:01 PM)

“City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age” by P. D. Smith.

(The Washington Post, June 8, 2012; 6:30 PM)

“Paris In Love: A Memoir by Eloisa James”

(The Washington Post, June 1, 2012; 7:35 PM)

“The Life of Slang” by Julie Coleman

(The Washington Post, May 25, 2012; 6:46 PM)

Review of ‘The Last Natural’: New book on Nationals star Bryce Harper comes up short

(The Washington Post, May 18, 2012; 11:23 AM)

‘China Hand: An Autobiography’ by John Paton Davies Jr.

(The Washington Post, May 11, 2012; 6:49 PM)

‘A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman’ by Alice Kessler-Harris

(The Washington Post, May 4, 2012; 5:44 PM)

“Derby Day” by D.J. Taylor

(The Washington Post, April 27, 2012; 5:42 PM)

“The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food” by Josh Schonwald

(The Washington Post, April 20, 2012; 6:06 PM)

“Titanic Tragedy: A New Look at the Lost Liner” by John Maxtone-Graham

(The Washington Post, April 13, 2012; 5:46 PM)

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