"Queen of the Clouds: Joan Merriam Smith and Jerrie Mock’s Epic Quest to Become the First Woman to Fly Solo Around the World" (Turtle Cove Press, 2023). The book launches April 26 at 7 p.m. at Midtown ...

Literature, Rachel Eisendrath likes to tell her students, is “a history of retrospection.” In “Gallery of Clouds,” her divagating, fragmented meditation on Philip Sidney’s divagating, fragmented ...

“Literature,” Rachel Eisendrath insists, “is a history of retrospection.” The observation comes early in “Gallery of Clouds,” her brief but intense meditation on the pastoral form, Philip Sidney and ...

In “The Beast in the Clouds,” Nathalia Holt tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt’s eldest sons, and their doomed attempt to escape his shadow. By Joshua Hammer Joshua Hammer’s most recent book is ...