Short reviews of books about public confession and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.

Short reviews of books about Masson v. New Yorker and immersion journalism at Harper’s magazine.

Short reviews of books about the run-up to World War II and the media’s coverage of John McCain

Short reviews of books about the Pulitzers, early African American journalism, and the relationship between advertisers and consumers

Short reviews of books about Tarbell’s muckraking, the cost of war, and that headless body in a topless bar

Short reviews of books: Woodward and Bernstein, the U.S. record on torture, and media populism

Short reviews of books: the AP, the I. Lewis Libby trial, White House communications, and abuses of civil liberties

Short reviews of books about political power and the press, the changing role of the editorial, selling anxiety to women, and bearing witness to a changing century