Rick Bass on His Reading Life
“Where you choose to direct your senses, step by step, matters,” says the eminent nature writer. His 30th book, “With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023,” is out in February.
How Maurice Sendak Lived With His Own Wild Things
For decades, the author of “In the Night Kitchen” and “The Nutshell Library” fortified himself with art and words.
Like Her Parents, Michele Norris Is a Person of Letters
When this journalist started collecting strangers’ stories about race, she relied on a trusted intermediary: the United States Postal Service.
Book Review: ‘The Women,’ by Kristin Hannah
“The Women” follows a San Diego debutante into a world of gut wounds and napalm. But the real challenge comes when she arrives home.
The Bloody History of True Crime Literature
The genre’s roots date back hundreds of years, to the prison cells and gallows of 17th-century London.
Anne Edwards, Best-Selling ‘Queen of Biography,’ Dies at 96
She profiled Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Ronald Reagan. She also profiled herself, in two memoirs and an autobiography.
What Murder Mysteries Solve
The books offer the promise of an ending where all questions are answered and some sort of justice is done.
Book Review: ‘The Holocaust,’ by Dan Stone
A new book by the historian Dan Stone seeks to amend — and expand — our understanding of the genocide.
Mary McCarthy’s Campus Novel and the Crisis in Higher Education
How a 1950s novel explains the crisis in higher education.
Alice Munro’s Best Work: A Guide
The only prerequisite for reading the Nobel laureate, a master of short stories, is: having lived. Here’s where to start.
The Best 5 Books About Artificial Intelligence
A guide to the best books about artificial intelligence.
Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Pioneer of Evangelical Feminism, Dies at 88
In books like “All We’re Meant to Be” and “Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?” she used the Bible to challenge beliefs that women were inferior to men and that homosexuality was a sin.
The Secret of Thomas Mann’s Translator
A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize.
'Your Utopia' considers surveillance and the perils of advanced technology
The best of Bora Chung's new stories impart a feeling of disorientation, evoking worlds that seem at first like utopias only to disclose, upon deeper inspection, dystopias.
'Your Utopia' considers surveillance and the perils of advanced technology
The best of Bora Chung's new stories impart a feeling of disorientation, evoking worlds that seem at first like utopias only to disclose, upon deeper inspection, dystopias.
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The Most Powerful Person in Publishing Doesn’t Like to Talk About Himself
Nihar Malaviya, Penguin Random House’s C.E.O., is a behind-the-scenes operator with a significant task: leading the company after a period of messy, and expensive, turbulence.
Book Review: ‘Hard by a Great Forest,’ by Leo Vardiashvili
In Leo Vardiashvili’s first novel, “Hard by a Great Forest,” a young man begins a fraught quest in the country he once fled.
Book Review: ‘One Nation Under Guns,’ by Dominic Erdozain; ‘What We’ve Become,’ by Jonathan M. Metzl
Two new books consider how the country’s obsession with firearms has become an existential threat.
N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer-Winning Native American Novelist, Dies at 89
The success of his novel “House Made of Dawn,” the first work by a Native American to win a Pulitzer, inspired a wave of Native literature.
In 'Martyr!,' an endless quest for purpose in a world that can be cruel and uncaring
Engaging and wildly entertaining, Kaveh Akbar's debut novel will undoubtedly be considered one of the best of the year because it focuses on very specific stories while discussing universal feelings.
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