Stephanie Merry works for the books section. She previously covered pop culture and wrote movie reviews. She joined The Washington Post in June 2008 after working on the business side at the Hill ...

Robert W. Merry, a seasoned journalist and former editor of Congressional Quarterly and the American Conservative, has written books about the Mexican-American War, U.S. foreign policy and ...

In Staff Picks, Book World editors and writers share what they’ve been reading off the clock. For this installment, we describe some of our best reading experiences from 2023. Stephanie Merry ...

The National Book Festival is Saturday at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mt. Vernon Place NW. Festival events run from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and doors open at 8:30 a.m. Admission is free.

This summer, the Book World staff is returning to some of our favorite political books. Our picks embrace an array of genres and styles — fiction, history, philosophy and more — but that very ...