Book Review: ‘Proof,' by Adam Kucharski
In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion.
Book Review: ‘Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves,’ by Sophie Gilbert
In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, online and off, damaged young women in deep, dark ways.
A Novelist Finds Unsettling Echoes in a Nazi-Era Filmmaker’s Compromises
Daniel Kehlmann wrote “The Director” only to realize how loudly the moral quandaries faced by G.W. Pabst would resonate today.
24 New Books to Read in May: Stephen King, Ocean Vuong, Alison Bechdel and more
Novels by Stephen King and Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow’s latest blockbuster biography, a new graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and more.
New Romance Novels
Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.
New Historical Fiction From Emma Donoghue, Chris Bohjalian and More
Our critic on the month’s best releases.
Jane Gardam: An Appreciation
The British author, best known for her “Old Filth” trilogy, never paid much attention to literary fashion, and her 22 novels range widely in genre, tone and style.
Jane Gardam Dead: ‘Old Filth’ Author Was 96
“The Queen of the Tambourine,” “Old Filth” and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in the last years of the colonial era.
Book Review: ‘Ginseng Roots,’ by Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson’s new book revisits his upbringing on a farm in rural Wisconsin, and the farmers — both American-born and not — who made up his community.
Book Review: ‘Medicine River’ by Mary Annette Pember
In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame — and the trauma it wrought in her own family.
Book Review: ‘The Fate of the Day,’ by Rick Atkinson
The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells.
Book Review: ‘Strangers in the Land,’ by Michael Luo
In “Strangers in the Land,” Michael Luo tells the story of the Chinese workers lured to the United States and expelled when 19th-century politicians turned against them.
Peter Lovesey Dead: Detective Novelist Was 88
He wrote a series of witty police procedurals set in Victorian England and then turned to the present, introducing a cantankerous and technology-averse detective.
Book Review: ‘I Regret Almost Everything,’ by Keith McNally
Keith McNally tracks his staggering successes — and failures — in his new memoir, “I Regret Almost Everything.”
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West
He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.
In TikToks and a New Memoir, Sister Monica Clare Puts a Refreshing Spin on Religious Life
Though she long felt a calling, Sister Monica Clare tried Hollywood first. Her book, and a visit, confirm the warmth — and fragility — of her new community.
Book Review: ‘The Golden Hour: A Story of Family and Power in Hollywood,’ by Matthew Specktor
In the unsentimental memoir “The Golden Hour,” Matthew Specktor ponders, among others, the father who succeeded in a punishing business now in its waning glory.
2 Books for Cluttered Minds
A spare elegy; a weird journey.
‘The Interview’: Isabel Allende Understands How Fear Changes a Society
The beloved author left Chile at a time of great turmoil and has longed for the nation of her youth ever since.
What Facing Cancer Taught Me About Fear
There’s something on the other side.
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