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Untitled 22 Aug 2013 | 12:12 am
What the President Should (Have) Read on Vacation Barack Obama has spent his summers as president vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, and in previous years he’d stop at Bunch of Grapes, a fine booksto...
Two Favorite Books for Summer's End 14 Aug 2013 | 11:42 pm
Two of our favorite books this summer couldn’t be more different. And their authors couldn’t be more different either. Kate Christensen, an accomplished novelist, columnist, and winner of the 2008 PEN...
Mr. Bezos Goes to Washington (DC) 8 Aug 2013 | 02:17 am
News that the Washington Post is being sold to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has stunned the media world and drawn widely varying reactions. Our own view of the deal has been complicated, on the one hand,...
Holding Up a Mirror to This Town 25 Jul 2013 | 01:45 am
Seldom does a book about the Washington political and media establishment generate as much buzz (and hand-wringing) as Mark Leibovich’s newly-released This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral—Plus, Plenty...
How Presidents End Up At War 18 Jul 2013 | 01:09 am
Marvin Kalb’s new book about the growing power of American presidents in taking the country to war could not be more timely, coinciding with vigorous public debate about the boundaries of executive po...
The Neighborhood Name Game 11 Jul 2013 | 01:23 am
Our appeal last week to help us "name this block"—the block of Connecticut Avenue NW where Politics & Prose resides—produced suggestions from the geographical to the literary. Several people cited evi...
NAME THIS NEIGHBORHOOD 2 Jul 2013 | 11:40 pm
Washington is a city of neighborhoods, many of which have widely recognized names—Capitol Hill, Anacostia, Georgetown, Friendship Heights, Penn Quarter, and Dupont Circle, to mention a few. But what a...
Have Politics & Prose, Will Travel 27 Jun 2013 | 12:22 am
Over the past two years, as we’ve offered more cultural trips to places near and far, the enthusiastic response of customers has been heartening. Clearly, there’s interest in the community for such gr...
Untitled 19 Jun 2013 | 11:20 pm
District Lines, Volume 2 The launch this month of District Lines, P&P’s anthology of work by local writers and artists, has been such a success that we’ve decided to go ahead with a second volume. Mo...
Writing with style 13 Jun 2013 | 01:29 am
In addition to great books, Politics & Prose carries an array of non-book items for gifts and personal use. Every once in awhile an unusual product comes along that warrants a special mention in this...
