Roger Lowenstein reviews “Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses—and Misuses—of History,” by Barry Eichengreen.

THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS: A Novel, By Paul Auster, Henry Holt: 336 pp., $25 ...

Hall of Mirrors book cover. One of the nation’s most intrepid spies of World War II has a Central Intelligence Agency training facility named for her, yet many don’t know her name.

With mirrors and lenses, with echoes and silences, Léger’s books suggest that we may write and perform the stories of our lives, but our roles have also been written for us, and have already ...

His first novel, "A Hall of Mirrors" (1967), was set in the maelstrom of New Orleans, where Mr. Stone had lived for a time, writing and performing his poetry and taking stock — literally — of ...

The freak accident has rapidly become a conventional device for the novelist wishing to puncture the balloon of comfortable middle-class existence. It has the virtue of grabbing the attention of ...