Friday, May 17, 2024 - 4:36pm
Adam Higginbotham discusses his new book, “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.”
Friday, May 17, 2024 - 2:51pm
By Penelope Green
She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage.
Friday, May 17, 2024 - 5:01am
By Sabrina Orah Mark
A comics collection’s sibling narrators and a graphic novel’s hapless heroine change their stories as they go along.
Friday, May 17, 2024 - 12:03am
By Jennifer Schuessler
The free-expression group has been engulfed by debate over its response to the Gaza war that forced the cancellation of its literary awards and annual festival.
Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 4:35pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 12:41pm
By Jonathan van Harmelen and Greg Robinson
He fought prejudice and incarceration during World War II to lead a successful career, becoming one of the first editors of color at a metropolitan newspaper.
Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 8:19am
By Kristen Martin
Elizabeth O'Connor's spare and bracing debut novel provides a stark reckoning with what it means to be seen from the outside, both as a person and as a people.
Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 5:00am
By James B. Stewart
Three new books chronicle businesses where executive self-enrichment at the expense of workers — and sometimes the law — prevails.
Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 5:00am
Audiobooks have let the artist “stay invested in stories while working with my hands.” Her new project: illustrating Jamaica Kincaid’s “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.”
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 1:37pm
By Jennifer Schuessler
As it cancels events amid criticism of its response to the Israel-Hamas war, PEN America faces questions about when an organization devoted to free speech for all should take sides.