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.

Camus meets Chandler in Japan, via the hall-of-mirrors thriller ‘My Annihilation ... This is a book that doesn’t afford easy succor or any particular comfort at all.

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 ...