Book Review: ‘The Deepest Map,’ by Laura Trethewey
Laura Trethewey’s “The Deepest Map” explores the new world of oceanic exploration — and its dangers.
250 Pounds of Pot, a Taco Truck and a Cross-Country Road Trip
Scott Von Doviak’s novel “Lowdown Road” evokes “The Dukes of Hazzard” — in a good way.
Giorgi Gospodinov’s Time-Bending Fiction
Georgi Gospodinov won the prestigious International Booker Prize this year for “Time Shelter,” a satirical novel exploring lofty ideas about nostalgia.
Book Review: ‘At the End of Every Day,’ by Arianna Reiche
In Arianna Reiche’s debut novel, “At the End of Every Day,” a death at an amusement park leads to the discovery of a mysterious underworld lurking beneath the attractions.
Book Review: ‘The Madam and the Spymaster,’ by Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Julia Schrammel
In “The Madam and the Spymaster,” a trio of journalists probe the story of a German bordello that purportedly doubled as a listening post.
How Stalin’s Control of Foreign Reporters Helped Shape Russia Coverage Today
In “The Red Hotel,” Alan Philps, a former Moscow correspondent, documents the lives of Western journalists under Stalin and traces through lines to media relations in Russia today.
Book Review: ‘The Light Room,’ by Kate Zambreno
In her new memoir, “The Light Room,” Kate Zambreno looks back on the unending togetherness of family life during the pandemic.
Book Review: ‘Completely Mad,’ by James R. Hansen
In “Completely Mad,” James Hansen tells the stories of two men who in 1969 vied to be the first to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Book Review: ‘The Exhibitionist,’ by Charlotte Mendelson
In Charlotte Mendelson’s “The Exhibitionist,” a wife and children live in the shadow of a blustering, egotistic, once important painter.
Book Review: ‘The Theory of Everything Else,’ by Dan Schreiber
Dan Schreiber’s “The Theory of Everything Else” is a return to the golden age of the trivia compendium.
Child’s Play
An editor recommends old and new books.
Book Review: ‘Owner of a Lonely Heart,’ by Beth Nguyen
Beth Nguyen left Vietnam and her biological mother when she was a baby. Her memoir “Owner of a Lonely Heart” examines the ripple effect of those departures.
TikTok Sells A Lot of Books. Now, Its Owner Wants to Publish Them, Too.
As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.
Book Review: ‘Pete and Alice in Maine,’ by Caitlin Shetterly
Remember the people who fled to second homes during the pandemic? Caitlin Shetterly wrote a novel about them.
Book Review: ‘New International Fiction’
Novels and stories by Itamar Vieira Junior, Carlos Fonseca, Guadalupe Nettel and Norman Erikson Pasaribu.
Looking Back at ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’
Helen Fielding’s ditzy heroine was all the rage when she was introduced to American audiences in 1998. Today, her nuttiness and self-loathing read like a relic from another time.
Newly Published, from Young Adult Novels to Political Tumult in Translation
A selection of recently published books.
Marvin Kitman, Satirist Whose Main Target Was TV, Dies at 93
He twitted the networks for 35 years as a critic at Newsday. He also audited George Washington’s wartime expense account and wrote a biography of Bill O’Reilly.
‘Umberto Eco’ Review: Remembering a Literary Explorer
A new documentary delves into the infectious curiosity and passions of the Italian scholar and author of “The Name of the Rose.”
‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: Raising a Glass to an American Tragedy
This immersive staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic invites audience members to join the party, but the pathos of the novel is stretched too thin.
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