Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to Senator Al Franken’s memoir, whether the internet is turning users “lonelier and lonelier” and debate the cultural appropriation.
Crime: Unmasking Magic and Murder in the Best New Crime
Alchemists and archaeologists are among the characters in this week’s mystery column. Also crooked cops and a very sad, very dead homeless man.
Books of The Times: In ‘Memory’s Last Breath,’ Remembering Life, Before It’s Too Late
Gerda Saunders tries to analyze her dementia as dispassionately as possible in her new book.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from editors at The New York Times.
Newsbook: 3 Books That Help Explain American-Cuban Relations
Here are three books that help explain the United States’ fraught historical relationship with Cuba.
Shades Of Gray Turn Sumptuous In 'Chain Letter'
In Chain Letter, cartoonist Farel Dalrymple returns to The City, the mysterious metropolis at the heart of his early 2000s series Pop Gun War. It's a weird, complicated and charming place.
(Image credit: )
By the Book: Emma Straub: By the Book
The author of “Modern Lovers” keeps her youth on a shelf: “There are books I loved in my teens and 20s that I would not love now, but it’s still nice to see them there, as a reminder of a person I used to be.”
'The Sarah Book' Is An Unsparing Primal Scream Of A Book
Scott McClanahan's semi-autobiographical novel is packed with loss, pain and existential anguish, but his narrator — also named Scott — refuses to give up, no matter how often he's knocked down.
(Image credit: )
Nonfiction: Two New Books Offer Advice for the Socially Awkward
Ty Tashiro (in “Awkward”) and Alan Alda (in “If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?”) say people can learn to interact more effectively.
Fiction: Skaters, Beaches and a Drug-Smuggling Stewardess in a Novel of the ’70s
In Daniel Riley’s debut novel, “Fly Me,” a young Vassar grad with a need for speed lights up a laid-back California town.
'The Alchemist's Daughter' Is No Frankenstein's Monster
Theodora Goss's novel takes bits and pieces from several different monstrous mythologies — Jekyll and Hyde, Dr. Moreau and more — but she makes something new and deceptively intricate out of them.
(Image credit: Liam James Doyle/NPR)
Nonfiction: A Powerful, Disturbing History of Residential Segregation in America
In “The Color of Law,” Richard Rothstein argues that government at all levels and in all branches abetted residential segregation, and the effects endure.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: What Audiobooks Will Liven Up My Summer Road Trips?
For long trips with adult passengers and shorter trips with kids, our columnist recommends great audiobooks to hold drivers’ attention.
Nonfiction: The iPhone Is 10 Years Old. Here’s the Story of Its Birth.
Apple’s culture of reverence and secrecy is no match for Brian Merchant in “The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone.”
Nonfiction: How Uber and Airbnb Became Poster Children for the Disruption Economy
Three books reckon with pioneers of the sharing economy; a fourth considers their dark side.
Fiction: In Mexico’s Violent Drug World, a Priest’s Dilemma Over the Seal of Confession
Philip Caputo’s novel tells of an American priest who must decide whether to break the sanctity of confession to inform on narcos.
Q. and A.: Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘The End of Advertising’
Andrew Essex discusses his new book about the fate of traditional advertising and what might replace it.
'Democracy In Chains' Traces The Rise Of American Libertarianism
Nancy MacLean's book stretches back to 19th century Vice President — and ardent secessionist — John C. Calhoun to find the roots of modern libertarianism, which she calls a threat to democracy.
(Image credit: Jessica Diaz-Hurtado/NPR)
In The Refrains Of 'Arabia Felix,' A Reminder: Often The End Is Just A Start
Of the scholars who set out on a 1761 quest to Yemen, only one came back alive. But don't let their looming doom distract from the drama in Thorkild Hansen's hybrid of history, fiction and travelogue.
(Image credit: )
'The Changeling' Is, Itself, A Changeling Of A Book
Victor LaValle's story of a rare book dealer whose life is torn apart after his wife commits an act of violence and vanishes is by turns enchanting, horrifying, infuriating and heartbreaking.
(Image credit: )
Pages
Search this Site
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
