During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

In her 2016 study “The Making of Shakespeare’s First Folio,” Oxford literary scholar Emma Smith writes that although the book arrived without any fanfare, “it is hard to overstate the ...

And one of the best book sections in this new era has turned up in the Wall Street Journal. The country's largest newspaper, with a print and digital circulation of 2.1 million, launched the book ...