Review: ‘Fish Swimming in Dappled Water,’ by Riku Onda
Riku Onda’s “Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight,” set over a single night, explores the role a couple may have played in the death of their hiking guide.
HarperCollins Workers Strike For Increased Wages, Benefits and Diversity
The one-day action, unionized employees said, was intended to draw attention to core problems with the publishing industry.
Quidditch Becomes ‘Quadball,’ Leaving J.K. Rowling Behind
Citing trademark concerns and objections to the author J.K. Rowling’s views on transgender issues, the sport’s leading groups officially distanced themselves from their “Harry Potter” roots.
New Thrillers
In Ruth Ware’s “It Girl,” a woman whose college roommate was murdered decides to reinvestigate the case.
Chance, Design and Inevitability in Three New Poetry Books
The Best Books to Take You Through Newfoundland
Michael Crummey, an award-winning author whose poetry and prose explore the region and its capital, St. John’s, shares book recommendations, local vocabulary and where to find a good pint.
Read Your Way Through Newfoundland
Michael Crummey, an award-winning author whose poetry and prose explore the region and its capital, St. John’s, shares book recommendations, local vocabulary and where to find a good pint.
In ‘The Kingdoms of Savannah,’ Oddballs Circle Around a Murder Mystery
George Dawes Green’s new novel hammers home the ugliness undergirding the city’s flowery, fashionable beauty.
Dana Canedy, Publisher of Simon & Schuster’s Flagship Imprint, Has Left the Job
She was the first Black woman in the position, which she held for two years. Her hiring came amid a push for diversity in the industry.
Why ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Author Delia Owens Is Wanted for Questioning
The release of a movie based on the best-selling novel renewed questions about the author, Delia Owens, her time in Zambia and the shooting of a suspected poacher there.
In ‘The Pink Hotel,’ Delusional Newlyweds Head Toward a Grand Reckoning
Liska Jacobs’s novel sets a honeymooning couple in a posh Beverly Hills establishment during a summer of unrest in Los Angeles.
Review: ‘Porn of the Self’
Cocktails, an addiction to erotica, workplace harassment and more.
Words of War: A Literary Lifeline for the Battlefield
Does poetry have any place in a war zone? For one correspondent, it is indispensable.
Book Review: “The Inheritors” by Eve Fairbanks
Eve Fairbanks’s decades-spanning portrait addresses three experiences of the “New South Africa.”
Review: ‘The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories,’ by Jamil Jan Kochai
In his new story collection, “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak,” Jamil Jan Kochai explores the intergenerational impact of conflict.
Book Review: “Death by Landscape” by Elvia Wilk
Elvia Wilk’s essay collection is “fan nonfiction” that takes on myriad kinds of world-building.
Love the Smell of Old Books? This Bookseller Would Like You to Leave.
In his grouchy, funny memoir, “A Factotum in the Book Trade,” Marius Kociejowski writes about what a good bookstore should feel like, famous customers he’s served and more.
David Weiss Halivni, Controversial Talmudic Scholar, Dies at 94
He was considered too radical by many Orthodox rabbis and too regressive by many Conservative Jewish leaders. But his work was widely praised.
A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire
Authors of color have turned in recent books to humor and surreal conceits to explore racism, identity politics and the pain of being “on the other side of whiteness.”
A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire
Authors of color have turned in recent books to humor and surreal conceits to explore racism, identity politics and the pain of being “on the other side of whiteness.”
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