How Book Bans Turned a Texas Town Upside Down
In a political environment where book-banning efforts are being used to drive voter sentiment, librarians find themselves on the front lines.
William Kent Krueger is BFF With His Most Famous Character
The best-selling author of 19 novels starring Cork O’Connor opens up about their relationship.
15 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Fall
An examination of the 1921 Tulsa massacre’s continued resonance today, Siddhartha Mukherjee’s sweeping history of the cell, a dive into the forces that shaped Donald J. Trump and more.
The Novel That Made Karen Armstrong Quit Her Reading Group
“There was an upsetting aura of righteousness in the room” when the group read Iris Murdoch’s “A Fairly Honourable Defeat,” says the religious scholar, whose latest book is “Sacred Nature.” “It did not deserve this response. I have never returned.”
Review: ‘Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne,’ by Katherine Rundell
In “Super-Infinite,” Katherine Rundell describes a man who was both munificent and misogynistic.
Poem: Photograph From September 11
Immortalizing those who jumped from the World Trade Center towers by intentionally not imagining how they must have felt.
The Real Lives of Early 20th-Century Celebrities, as Depicted in ‘Ragtime’
In the novel, E.L. Doctorow makes characters out of J. Pierpont Morgan, Emma Goldman, Booker T. Washington and others, sometimes hewing to the historical record and sometimes going his own way.
Review: ‘Meet Us by the Roaring Sea,’ by Akil Kumarasamy; ‘The Last Karankawas,’ by Kimberly Garza; ‘Mother in the Dark,’ by Kayla Maiuri
Debut novels by Akil Kumarasamy, Kimberly Garza and Kayla Maiuri feature lonely women, looking for a mother’s love.
Book Review: “The Undercurrents,” by Kirsty Bell
In “The Undercurrents,” the end of Kirsty Bell’s marriage starts her on a highly personal investigation of her adopted home.
In Angie Cruz’s New Novel, There’s No Such Thing as T.M.I.
“How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water” takes place in a career counselor’s office in Upper Manhattan, where a Dominican immigrant bares all.
Review: “In Search of Mary Seacole” by Helen Rappaport
Helen Rappaport’s “In Search of Mary Seacole” gives a Black nursing legend her due.
Review: “Strangers to Ourselves,” by Rachel Aviv
For her first book, the New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv probes her own and others’ lives to suggest how the stories we are told by the medical profession about our struggles can both help and harm.
Review: Climate Fiction: ‘Venomous Lumpsucker,’ ’Denial,’ ’40’
Three novels — “Venomous Lumpsucker,” “Denial” and “40” — consider a grim future and those responsible for it.
Newly Published, From Missing Classmates to a Family Curse
A selection of recently published books.
Dr. Ronald Glasser, Bard of the Vietnam War Wounded, Dies at 83
His “365 Days” offered unvarnished, vivid sketches of soldiers injured in the war. He said it was a book he felt compelled to write.
Peter Straub, Literary Master of the Supernatural, Dies at 79
A fan of Henry James and John Ashbery, he brought a poet’s sensibility to stories about ghosts, demons and other things that go bump in the night.
Book Review: ‘The Car,’ by Bryan Appleyard
Bryan Appleyard’s historical odyssey charts the human love affair with motor vehicles.
Booker Prize Finalists Include ‘Oh William!’ and ‘Glory’
The finalists range widely in style and subject matter, and half use humor to take on grim historical periods. A winner will be named in October.
Book Review: ‘American Demon,’ by Daniel Stashower
In his new true-crime book, “American Demon,” Daniel Stashower explores the unsolved case of Cleveland’s “Torso Killer” and the quixotic hunt to stop him.
New Yorker Festival, which runs Will Host Bono and Rep Jamie Raskin
The three day-festival beginning on Oct. 7 will also include conversations with stars like Ben Stiller, Chloe Bailey and Sandra Oh.
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