A Factual Account of Truman Capote, Notorious Embroiderer of Truth
In “Deliberate Cruelty,” Roseanne Montillo delves into a grisly mystery involving one of the writer’s many nemeses.
A Factual Account of Truman Capote, Notorious Embroiderer of Truth
In “Deliberate Cruelty,” Roseanne Montillo delves into a grisly mystery involving one of the writer’s many nemeses.
Teaching Children About Climate Change
Two new picture books and a novel for young readers place children at the center of environmental calamity.
Book Review: ‘White Horse,’ by Erika T. Wurth
In Erika T. Wurth’s new horror novel, “White Horse,” a woman searches for the truth about her vanished mother, an investigation that involves confronting literal and metaphorical ghosts.
Book Review: ‘Surrender,’ by Bono
In his new book, “Surrender,” the singer remembers hanging out with everyone from the Edge to Bill Gates.
Children’s Books About Immigration
Five new children’s books explore the meaning of home.
Book Review: ‘Foster,’ by Claire Keegan
Claire Keegan’s new novella sends a poor child into a childless home in southeast Ireland.
Gerald Stern, Poet of Wistfulness, Anger and Humor, Dies at 97
Mr. Stern, who drew on his own upbringing and the death of his sister, began writing late in life and earned the 1998 National Book Award, among other accolades.
Carmen Callil, Founder of the Feminist Press Virago, Dies at 84
She upended the clubby male landscape of British publishing, and expanded the literary canon, reintroducing works by forgotten women authors.
Book Review: ‘The Grimkes,’ by Kerri Greenidge
“The Grimkes,” by the historian Kerri Greenidge, provides a nuanced, revisionist account of an American family best known for a pair of white abolitionist sisters.
Book Review: ‘The Lemon,’ by S.E. Boyd
“The Lemon” is the satirical debut by a team of three authors writing under the pseudonym S.E. Boyd.
Emily Dickinson, at Home in Her ‘Full-Color Life’
The poet’s house museum in Amherst, Mass., gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white.
Jason Zinoman Talks About David Letterman
The Times’s comedy critic discusses his 2017 biography, “Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night,” and the Times Magazine writer Sam Anderson talks about Oklahoma City and his 2018 book, “Boom Town.”
Steve Keene Made 300,000 Paintings in a Home Full of Easels
The artist’s studio and living space, created with his wife, Starling Keene, an architect, houses a one-man assembly line of affordable art — enough to fill a new book.
The Haunted Past
What ghost stories of the formerly enslaved tell us about their lives.
Book Review: ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,’ by Shehan Karunatilaka
“The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” which won the 2022 Booker Prize, is an account of wartime Sri Lanka by the ghost of a photojournalist.
Novellas by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Hervé Guibert and Others
Fiction from Hiroko Oyamada, Eduardo Halfon, Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Hervé Guibert.
Book Review: ‘Ted Kennedy,’ by John A. Farrell
John A. Farrell’s “Ted Kennedy” is a sympathetic take on a complex life.
Lucianne Goldberg, Who Helped Expose Clinton Affair, Dies at 87
It was Ms. Goldberg, a literary agent, who suggested that Linda Tripp tape her conversations with Monica Lewinsky. She later fed revelations to the news media.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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