In four debut novels, all the heroines want — whether they have two legs or a fishtail — is a miracle.
After leaving England and returning to Australia, the best-selling author wrote a novel about a writer who left England and returned to Australia.
Jeanette Winterson got a police escort so she could make it to Eleanor Shearer’s birth. What’s followed has been years of advice about building a creative life.
The question of death is met with the sweet bewilderment of a poet
What began as a mentor-mentee relationship between the writers has become more “equal” and “relaxed.”
In reading Raven Leilani’s novel, Ulla Johnson recognized a commonality in their respective crafts. Leilani did, too.
The “Nevada” writer came across Sybil Lamb’s illustrations two decades ago and thought, “Someone out there is doing this thing that I don’t even know how to articulate.”
In “Good Girls,” Hadley Freeman chronicles her long battle with anorexia, and its larger implications.
The authors met in person for the first time during their shoot for T’s Culture issue. “The photographer had to tell us to stop talking.”
Her 2005 book, “Mozart in the Jungle,” lived up to its subtitle, “Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music,” and was later made into an Amazon TV series.
The author of “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” received the D.H. Lawrence novel after her wedding in 1959: “The marriage didn’t last but the honeymoon was memorable.”
A new memoir traces the three-time Tony Award winner’s life and career working with Balanchine, Robbins and Fosse.
In “The Best Minds,” Jonathan Rosen pieces together how he and his brilliant classmate diverged after Long Island, Yale and enviable careers.
Laura Dern and her mother, Diane Ladd, both made careers in the movies. In “Honey, Baby, Mine,” they drop names, rehash arguments and lean on each other.
The scholar Christina Sharpe’s new book comprises memories, observations, artifacts and artworks — fragments attesting to the persistence of prejudice while allowing glimpses of something like hope.
A selection of recently published books.
In “Greek Lessons,” Han Kang’s latest novel to be translated into English, a young Korean mother is suddenly unable to speak.
Henri Cole’s sonnets, gathered in “Gravity and Center,” reject most of the form’s constraints but embrace its ability to show how thought works.
Julia Lee’s memoir, “Biting the Hand,” is about forging an identity in a nation of boundaries.
Books by Maryse Condé and Eva Baltasar are among six nominees for the prestigious award for fiction translated into English.
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