Short Novels Dominate International Booker Prize Nominees
Only one of the 13 titles nominated for the prestigious award for fiction translated into English is more than 300 pages long. But it is the one favored by critics.
Book Review: ‘Death Takes Me,’ by Cristina Rivera Garza
In Cristina Rivera Garza’s novel “Death Takes Me,” a professor becomes both witness and suspect in a gruesome killing spree.
Book Review: ‘The Strange Case of Jane O.,’ by Karen Thompson Walker
In Karen Thompson Walker’s latest novel, “The Strange Case of Jane O.,” a patient’s unusual symptoms suggest metaphysical mysteries.
Book Review: ‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,’ by Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad considers American and European responses to mass suffering in his new book.
Alvin F. Poussaint, Pioneering Expert on Black Mental Health, Dies at 90
A psychiatrist at Harvard and an adviser to Jesse Jackson and Bill Cosby, he challenged Black Americans to stand up to systemic racism.
A Discovery of Lost Pages Brings to Light a ‘Last Great Yiddish Novel’
Editors waited decades for the final manuscript of Chaim Grade’s “Sons and Daughters.” Its appearance shook the Yiddish literary world.
Book Review: “The Last Manager,” by John W. Miller
The famous Baltimore Orioles manager gets a vivid new biography, the book equivalent of “a screaming triple into the left field corner.”
Book Review: ‘Show Don’t Tell: Stories,’ by Curtis Sittenfeld
Her story collection is about the thorny conundrums of being alive.
New Romance Books by Bal Khabra, Adriana Herrera and Julian Winters
Our columnist on the month’s new releases.
These Books Are Absolutely Unreadable. That’s the Point.
A new exhibition at the Center for Book Arts in New York features a range of items — transistor radios, lanterns, cigarette lighters and more — designed to look like books.
Spicy, Sparkling New Romance Novels
Our columnist on the month’s new releases.
Book Review: ‘The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream,’ by Jon Savage
In “The Secret Public,” Jon Savage traces how music helped popularize queer culture, from the 1950s through the heyday of disco.
Amid Changes at the National Archives, the Carter Library Cancels a Civil Rights Book Event
After President Trump put in new leadership at the National Archives, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta abruptly canceled several events.
2 Books Chock-Full of Worthwhile Ideas
A study of human fatigue; a cranky travel memoir.
Book Review: ‘The Prosecutor,’ by Jack Fairweather
In “The Prosecutor,” Jack Fairweather tells the story of Fritz Bauer, the German jurist who helped find Eichmann in Argentina and brought Auschwitz guards to justice.
Best Serial Killer Novels, According to S.A. Cosby
The mystery writer S.A. Cosby picks some of his favorite tales of the human monsters that wait for us in the dark.
Book Review: ‘All or Nothing,’ by Michael Wolff
In “All or Nothing,” the Trump biographer shows that he is his favorite subject’s perfect twin.
Three Poets: The Tale of Gerd, Carl & Allen
Gerd Stern, who has died at 96, formed a lifelong bond with Allen Ginsberg and Carl Solomon. Ten years ago, he wrote about how they had met in a psychiatric hospital.
Celebrating 100 Years of Edward Gorey
The great author and illustrator was born on Feb. 22, 1925. Gilbert Cruz talks with the Book Review’s Sadie Stein about his distinctive talent and sensibility.
A Centenary Tribute to Edward Gorey
He made the uncanny cool for a kid like me, whose dollhouse contained a miniature Ouija board in the child’s room and a ghost made of Kleenex and cotton balls in the attic.
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