Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 5:02am
By María Sánchez Díez
The Peruvian author wants to “decolonize” everything — starting with her body and her family. Her latest book, “Undiscovered,” investigates the 19th-century European explorer that shares her last name.
Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 5:00am
By Kathryn Shattuck
The actor and environmentalist considered hiring a ghostwriter for help with his memoir, then realized as he was writing things down, “This is too much fun.”
Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 5:00am
By Sewell Chan
“Collision of Power,” Martin Baron’s memoir of his tenure as the paper’s executive editor, is a gripping chronicle of politics and journalism in a period of instability for both.
Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 5:00am
By Casey Schwartz
In “Brutalities: A Love Story,” Margo Steines chronicles her lifelong fixation with being hurt — and shows herself some compassion.
Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 5:00am
By Clay Shirky
Taylor Lorenz’s “Extremely Online” charts the internet phenomena that have shaped the 21st century, focusing not on the platforms but on the users.
Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 5:00am
By Abigail Santamaria
In Allyson Stone’s “Ashes and Stones” and Diana Helmuth’s “The Witching Year,” authors confront ancient stereotypes through modern eyes.
Saturday, September 30, 2023 - 5:00am
By Jiayang Fan
In “Sparks,” the journalist Ian Johnson chronicles the methods and motivations of the activists trying to preserve a record of the atrocities of the past.
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 2:33pm
By Santul Nerkar
A judge ended a nearly 20-year-old conservatorship that had given a couple broad authority over the affairs of the former N.F.L. player Michael Oher.
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 2:18pm
Book Review editors discuss their love of listening to books out loud.
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 5:02am
By Erica Ackerberg
“Coming and Going” is the photographer Jim Goldberg’s visual memoir of three generations in his family, from 1980 to today.