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In the War Room is a detailed reconstruction of how Israel's top officials navigated the three-year series of wars that began with Hamas's invasion of Israel on October 7. The book lets us zoom out, providing structure and narrative coherence to a conflict that is in some ways still ongoing, and that most people know only from daily news stories, many of them deeply ...

It's a rare book so vile that it has the power to render the reader physically nauseated.

Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, is so repellently disgusting that it left me not only sick to my stomach but feeling frequently, also, like I needed to put it down and go wash my hands thoroughly with soap and water.

"On May 29, 1453, the city of Constantinople disappeared." So writes Anthony Kaldellis in 1453: The Conquest and Tragedy of Constantinople, a riveting, passionate, indignant, eloquent, and—notably—revisionist book of history.

Mr. Kaldellis, born in Athens, is a professor at the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago. His perspective is frankly phi...

One remaining sign of life was also a call for death: A tattered demolition permit clung to a fence cordoning off the driveway to Grossinger's, formerly a 1,200-acre resort that made the Catskill Mountains worth the trip. The permit, hanging on in 2021, approved the destruction of the hotel's most upscale building, dreamed up during the retreat's 1960s heyday.

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What happens when a portly man in his 60s named Thornton Melon enrolls in college to be with his son? What happens when that man is a loutish, impulsive, and outspoken clothing magnate with no academic background but loads of practical life lessons? When that man is played by Rodney Dangerfield, the result is Back to School, the sixth-highest-grossing film of 1986.