Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 10:00am
By Mina Tavakoli
In this tactile novel, the celebrated Norwegian musician Jenny Hval places two entropic lovers within a converted Australian brewery to explore sexuality, decay and freedom.
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Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 7:00am
By Caitlyn Paxson
Laura Weymouth's new novel follows two sisters struggling with the aftermath of their adventures in a magic land. That struggle is the vivid heart of the book, but its Narnia-lite doesn't quite work.
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Thursday, October 25, 2018 - 5:00am
The author, most recently, of the novel “Unsheltered” loves “fiction that educates me on the sly, especially about something I didn’t realize I wanted to know. I’m open to any kind of arcana.”
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 3:00pm
By MITCHELL S. JACKSON
Casey Gerald’s memoir, “There Will Be No Miracles Here,” recounts a life breaking through enormous barriers while never forgetting his roots.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 8:00am
By PETER HALDEMAN
Transgender writers are embracing a more elastic literary form — the novel — and a number of recent works, often genre-bending as well as gender-bending, have won critical acclaim.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 7:00am
By Ilana Masad
You don't have to be a cat lover to enjoy Hiro Arikawa's novel about a man and his cat, traveling across Japan to visit old friends. And you may find yourself tearing up by the end.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 5:00am
By TINA JORDAN
Sixty years ago today, the Swedish Academy awarded the Russian author Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize for Literature, but less than a week later, under pressure from the Soviet government, Pasternak rejected the award. The story, which had more twists and turns than a Cold War-era spy novel, played out in The New York Times with one front-page story after another.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 5:00am
By LEV MENDES
A new book by Benjamin Balint considers what a lengthy courtroom fight over the rights to Franz Kafka’s literary archive reveals about him — and us.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 1:00pm
By Lily Meyer
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah's intellectually hefty debut works through ideas about racism, about classism and capitalism, about the apocalypse, and, most of all, about the corrosive power of belief.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 12:00pm
By JOHN SWANSBURG
In “The Big Fella,” Jane Leavy demonstrates how the Bambino paved the way for every superstar to come.