Review: “We Carry Their Bones,” Erin Kimmerle
Erin Kimmerle’s “We Carry Their Bones” describes efforts to uncover the graves and crimes at a boys’ school in Florida.
Review: “Grand Hotel Europa,” by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s “Grand Hotel Europa” combines a comedy of manners with cultural commentary.
Review: “Diary of a Film,” by Niven Govinden
“Diary of a Film,” a novel by Niven Govinden, follows a film director struggling to balance his artistry with real life.
Book Review: “Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter” by Lizzie Pook
Lizzie Pook’s novel about a young woman in the 19th-century outback, “Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter,” examines the perils — moral, physical and otherwise — of the pearling industry.
Review: “Jackie & Me,” by Louis Bayard
In a new novel, “Jackie & Me,” Louis Bayard imagines the road to Camelot from the perspective of a loyal friend.
Review: “Jackie & Me,” by Louis Bayard
In a new novel, “Jackie & Me,” Louis Bayard imagines the road to Camelot from the perspective of a loyal friend.
Book Review: “Pig Years” by Ellen Gaydos
In her memoir, “Pig Years,” Ellyn Gaydos shows readers what it’s like to be a farmhand.
Tom Perrotta on the Return of Tracy Flick
Perrotta talks about “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” and Ann Leary discusses “The Foundling.”
Tom Perrotta on the Return of Tracy Flick
Perrotta talks about “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” and Ann Leary discusses “The Foundling.”
Werner Herzog’s Fever Dreams
The filmmaker behind “Grizzly Man” and “Fitzcarraldo” makes a late-career foray into fiction with his new book, “The Twilight World.” He feels he has finally found his medium.
Peter Lamborn Wilson, Advocate of ‘Poetic Terrorism,’ Dies at 76
His concept of a “temporary autonomous zone” became an inspiration for protests like Occupy Wall Street and for gatherings like Burning Man.
Peter Lamborn Wilson, Advocate of ‘Poetic Terrorism,’ Dies at 76
His concept of a “temporary autonomous zone” became an inspiration for protests like Occupy Wall Street and for gatherings like Burning Man.
Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Lapvona’ Is Gloomy Folk Horror Set Long Ago
Moshfegh’s latest novel, which takes place in a fictional medieval village, fixates on ugliness and pain.
Swapping Books Brings Katy Tur Closer to Her Mother
“It’s like getting a postcard from inside the other’s head without even having to talk about it,” says the NBC News correspondent, whose new book is “Rough Draft,” a memoir. “Because who wants to talk about it?”
John Merriman, Eminent Historian of France, Is Dead at 75
An indefatigable researcher, he wrote books about terrorists, anarchists, leftists and ordinary people and spent a lot of time in France’s archives.
Review: ‘The Men,’ by Sandra Newman; and ‘When Women Were Dragons,’ by Kelly Barnhill
Two speculative novels imagine rather drastic rearrangements to our existing gender relations.
Abortion Politics, Money and the Reshaping of the G.O.P.
In “Dollars for Life,” Mary Ziegler argues that, over the course of decades, the anti-abortion movement laid the groundwork for an insurgent candidate like Donald Trump.
The Very Human Pleasure of Being Read To
From a Terry Pratchett fantasy to memoirs set in Northern Ireland and on a pig farm, these stories are most memorable for the voices telling them.
Review: ‘How You Get Famous,’ by Nicole Pasulka
Nicole Pasulka’s new history of drag in Brooklyn, “How You Get Famous,” closely follows a handful of queens to explore the cultural and business evolution of the drag industry.
Ranan Lurie, Political Cartoonist With a Global Pen, Dies at 90
Starting in the Air Force in Israel and later moving to the United States, he set a record as the world’s most widely syndicated in his field.
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