Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 5:01am
By Daisy Lafarge
In Margot Livesey’s new novel, “The Road From Belhaven,” a 19th-century farm girl’s life and maturity are complicated by her uncontrollable visions of accident and disaster.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 5:01am
By Ivy Pochoda
In Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its repercussions destroy his city’s social and political order.
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 1:31pm
Fanon, who died in 1961, wrote about the politics and psychology of colonialism. In The Rebel's Clinic, Adam Shatz captures the thorny brilliance of a man whose radicalism is still shaping our world.
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 1:31pm
By John Powers
Fanon, who died in 1961, wrote about the politics and psychology of colonialism. In The Rebel's Clinic, Adam Shatz captures the thorny brilliance of a man whose radicalism is still shaping our world.
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 11:50am
By Adam Nossiter
Her children’s books on matters of sex and sexuality — notably “It’s Perfectly Normal” — became fodder for the culture wars.
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 6:46am
By Matthieu Aikins
In “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here,” Jonathan Blitzer connects the dots between U.S. foreign policy in Central America and the migrant crisis.
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 5:00am
By William Boyd
Paul Theroux’s new novel, “Burma Sahib,” explores the writer’s formative experiences in colonial Myanmar.
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 5:00am
By Katie Kitamura
In his new novel, “Trondheim,” the author Cormac James explores the terrible dread and peculiar quality of watching over a loved one in the hospital.
Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 12:18pm
By Lesley M. M. Blume
In “The Bishop and the Butterfly,” Michael Wolraich tells the story of the sensational true crime that dominated headlines and helped topple Tammany Hall.
Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 5:01am
By W. M. Akers
“Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?” collects correspondence sent by the likes of Warren G. Harding, Grover Cleveland and Theodore Roosevelt .