Book Review: ‘Connie: A Memoir,’ by Connie Chung
In a frank and entertaining new memoir, the TV newscaster recounts how sexism, and Dan Rather, sidelined her groundbreaking career.
Tony Robbins Backs the Estate, a Chain of Luxury Wellness Resorts
The self-help guru is joining the hotel mogul Sam Nazarian to open a chain of luxury preventive-medicine resorts, aiming for a slice of the $5.6 trillion wellness industry.
Academic Plagiarism Complaint Against the Author of ‘White Fragility’ Dismissed
In a letter, the University of Washington stated that the evidence presented in the confidential complaint failed to meet the institution’s criteria for plagiarism.
Will Self Discusses ‘Elaine’
In “Elaine,” Will Self conjures a 1950s housewife who bears a striking resemblance to the woman who raised him.
Book Review: ‘She-Wolves,’ by Paulina Bren
In “She-Wolves,” the historian Paulina Bren recounts the uphill — and ongoing — battle of women to break into the finance industry.
Book Review: ‘Rejection,’ by Tony Tulathimutte
Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center on the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching.
In ‘Rejection,’ Tony Tulathimutte Takes Aim at the Identity Era
Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.
Years After He Smeared Anita Hill, David Brock Has a New Book, ‘Stench,’ Denouncing Clarence Thomas
As a young conservative, David Brock smeared Hill, who accused the Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past.
Buried for Years in an Archive, a Novel by a Master of Horror Is Out
“Pay the Piper,” a manuscript by George A. Romero, the director of classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” was incomplete. Daniel Kraus, who studied Romero’s oeuvre, gave it a fitting finish.
Book Review: ‘Hampton Heights,’ by Dan Kois
In the journalist Dan Kois’s new book, “Hampton Heights,” a group of middle-school boys discover magic and frights in an unassuming Milwaukee enclave.
Book Review: ‘Question 7,’ by Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan’s new book progresses like a nuclear chain reaction, moving from personal narrative to world events.
Book Review: ‘Kingmaker,’ by Sonia Purnell
Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman argues that the Democratic stalwart and former ambassador was more than the men she cultivated.
Book Review: ‘Frighten the Horses,’ by Oliver Radclyffe
In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying.
Interview: Robert Caro on ‘The Power Broker’
The Pulitzer-winning biographer revisits his seminal 1974 life of the New York City bureaucrat Robert Moses.
Book Review: ‘Dear Dickhead,’ by Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes confronts sexual politics in an epistolary novel with a stubbornly idealistic streak.
Book Review: ‘Amazing Grapes,’ by Jules Feiffer
With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.
Book Review: ‘A Sunny Place for Shady People,’ by Mariana Enriquez
The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.
Pedro Almodóvar, Master of Mystifying Films, Wrote a Book He Can’t Classify
In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.
Book Review: ‘Paris in Ruins,’ by Sebastian Smee
Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.
Leonard Riggio, 83, Dies; Founded Barnes & Noble and Upended Publishing
He turned a college book store into a publishing behemoth, pioneering the bookstore-as-superstore and putting thousands of independents out of business before being overtaken by Amazon.
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