Michael Hastings’s posthumous novel focuses on the American news media’s complicity in the rush to war in Iraq and on the withering of venerable brands like Time and Newsweek.
Cast in its day as “the war to end all wars,” World War I has instead become the war to which all subsequent wars and much else in modern life seem to refer, consciously or not.
“The Silkworm,” the new detective novel by J. K. Rowling, writing as Robert Galbraith, takes on the publishing world as it tracks a mystery surrounding a missing novelist.
