She believed the bond between adults was as sustaining as that between parent and child, and developed a therapy to strengthen and repair broken relationships.
In “Cunning Folk,” Tabitha Stanmore takes us back to a time when the use of “service magic” was an everyday — and underground — practice.
In David Nicholls’s “You Are Here,” a boggy trek through the English countryside becomes an unlikely impetus for midlife romance.
How do you bring an almost plotless book of elliptical fragments to the stage? The director Katie Mitchell has tried with three actors, four screens and three bottles of whiskey.
A new biography of the performer, writer and director Elaine May has the intensity to match its subject.
Chigozie Obioma, the fifth of 12 children in a Nigerian family, dreamed of following in Maradona’s footsteps. Bouts of malaria drove him to books — and changed his life.
Teddy Wayne takes a swing at sex, class and sporty intrigue in his latest novel, “The Winner.”
Stuart E. Eizenstat has served half a dozen U.S. presidents and made a lot of friends. In “The Art of Diplomacy,” he lays out some of their teachable moments.
With her collaborator, Elaine Mazlish, she wrote “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” and other books that have endured as parenting bibles.
A Gwendolyn Brooks biography; a Bill Cunningham photo collection.
Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and how.
In “A Walk in the Park,” Kevin Fedarko recounts a trek-of-a-lifetime that becomes a nightmare in one of America’s most stunning sites. At least he can laugh about it.
An unlikely romance blooms in Yael van der Wouden’s tricky, remarkable novel, “The Safekeep.”
Jesmyn Ward, Bridget Everett, Sigrid Nunez and seven other writers, actors, musicians and filmmakers talk to us about grief — how they’ve experienced it and how it has changed them.
Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.
His own dark history prompted him to write about and investigate the roots of violence, notably in his best-selling novel “The Alienist.”
The nonfiction and novels we can’t stop thinking about.
In “The Editor,” Sara B. Franklin argues that Judith Jones was a “publishing legend,” transcending industry sexism to champion cookbooks — and Anne Frank.
At a time of extreme polarization on campus, the banality of the graduation ceremony is a tradition worth celebrating.
Some books sprint; others take the scenic route. The heady, highly absorbing titles here earn their marathon run times.
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