Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:06am
By Jennifer Szalai
The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:05am
By Benjamin P. Russell
In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:01am
By Amal El-Mohtar
New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 5:14pm
By Penelope Green
Born in England and raised Jewish, she became agnostic, writing books about her own lack of faith, the prophet Muhammad and her time as a car columnist.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 3:03pm
By Heller McAlpin
In a heartrending follow-up to his beloved 2009 novel, Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín's handles uncertainties and moral conundrums with exquisite delicacy, zigzagging through time to a devastating climax.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 12:00pm
By Michael Paulson
The Oscar-winning actor will star as an A.I.-curious author in “McNeal,” starting performances in September at Lincoln Center Theater.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 6:21am
By Sam Thielman
In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, “Miracleman: The Silver Age” goes another way with the return of a godlike hero from a world more like ours.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 5:01am
By Sarah Lyall
News stories have chronicled the basketball star’s detention in a Russian prison. Here’s her version.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 5:00am
By A.O. Scott
Now a suburban married mother, Eilis Lacey finds herself in a quandary in “Long Island,” Colm Tóibín’s sequel to his much-admired novel.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 5:00am
By Alexander Chee
Inspired by her grandmother, Eve J. Chung’s lively novel, “Daughters of Shandong,” traces a harrowing journey across 1950s Communist China.