Book Review: ‘Stealing,’ by Margaret Verble
In Margaret Verble’s latest novel, “Stealing,” a Cherokee girl is kidnapped and sent to a Christian school, where terrors reign.
Book Review: ‘Couplets,’ by Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner’s first book, “Couplets,” breathes new life into an old form to tell the story of a romance that catches its heroine off guard.
The Essential Colette
The author, considered by some to be the greatest French writer of her time, played with words and convention. Here’s where to start with her work.
Book Review: ‘Up With the Sun,’ by Thomas Mallon
In his name-dropping novel “Up With the Sun,” Thomas Mallon fictionalizes the minor career and tabloid murder of the Broadway actor Dick Kallman.
Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life
The author Mariana Enriquez deploys — and enjoys — horror conventions. But in “Our Share of Night,” she reminds readers that the violence we live with can be far more frightening.
Book Review: ‘The Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3,” by Kira Yarmysh
A debut novel from Kira Yarmysh, a longtime critic of Vladimir Putin, offers an intimate look at political imprisonment.
Book Review: ‘The Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3,” by Kira Yarmysh
A debut novel from Kira Yarmysh, a longtime critic of Vladimir Putin, offers an intimate look at political imprisonment.
With ‘The Critic’s Daughter,” Priscilla Gilman Joins the Ranks of Literary Daughters Who Take on Their Literary Fathers
With “The Critic’s Daughter: A Memoir,” Priscilla Gilman, daughter of the theater critic Richard Gilman, joins the ranks of writers whose memoirs examine their famous, and flawed, fathers.
Book Review: ‘Stone Blind,’ by Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes’s new novel, “Stone Blind,” continues her retellings of Greek legends, this one featuring the snake-haired Gorgon, long a symbol of female monstrosity.
Book Review: ‘A Spell of Good Things,’ by Ayòbámi Adébáyò
In Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s “A Spell of Good Things,” the lives of a working-class boy and a wealthy young doctor converge to expose the precarity of the social order.
Turning Nairobi’s Public Libraries Into ‘Palaces for the People’
A Kenyan nonprofit is restoring iconic public libraries, leaving behind a segregated past and turning them into inclusive spaces.
What Does It Mean to Be Liberal?
In his new book, “The Struggle for a Decent Politics,” the political philosopher Michael Walzer grapples with a definition.
Book Review: “B.F.F.,” by Christie Tate
In her new memoir, “B.F.F.,” Christie Tate looks at her history of failed platonic relationships and learns something about herself.
Book Review: ‘Someone Else’s Shoes,’ by Jojo Moyes
In “Someone Else’s Shoes,” Jojo Moyes puts a fresh spin on the classic plot where characters swap circumstances.
As Wallace Stevens Once Put It: Hi!
Poetic beginnings — first lines, or first poems in collections — do a lot of work in setting the tone and the reader’s expectations.
Linda Pastan, Poet Who Plumbed the Ordinary, Dies at 90
In 15 collections, beginning in the early 1970s, she wrote of family, nature, loss and sometimes dogs.
Book Review: ‘Big Swiss,’ by Jen Beagin
In Jen Beagin’s “Big Swiss,” a sex therapist’s transcriptionist fantasizes about sleeping with a married female patient, who also happens to go to her dog park.
A Look Ahead at the Season’s Big Books
Gilbert Cruz and Tina Jordan discuss the upcoming books they’re most excited to read in the next few months.
John Guillory’s ‘Professing Criticism’ Asks, What Is Literary Criticism For?
John Guillory’s “Cultural Capital,” published amid the 1990s canon wars, became a classic. In a follow-up, “Professing Criticism,” he takes on his field’s deep funk.
Review: ‘An Assassin in Utopia,’ by Susan Wels
Susan Wels’s “An Assassin in Utopia” links President Garfield’s killer to the atmosphere of free love and religious fervor that gripped Oneida, N.Y., in the late 1800s.
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