Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 5:00am
By Harriet Lane
“Ordinary Human Failings,” a new novel by the Irish writer Megan Nolan, is a fierce and relentless account of characters trapped by circumstance and tragedy.
Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 5:00am
By Natasha Frost
Alexis Wright, an Australian author, writes epic novels in which voices clamor to be heard in a dynamic swirl of the fantastic and the bleak.
Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 5:00am
By Charmaine Wilkerson
In her debut novel, “Redwood Court,” DéLana R.A. Dameron begins with an innocuous question: “What am I made of?”
Saturday, February 3, 2024 - 7:50am
A travel memoir; a novel about boredom and erotic reverie.
Saturday, February 3, 2024 - 5:14am
By Dwight Garner
Lucy Sante recounts the trials and joys of her gender transition in the memoir “I Heard Her Call My Name.”
Saturday, February 3, 2024 - 5:02am
By Sarah Lyall and Alexandra Alter
The movie, with its handful of Oscar nominations, has refocused attention on “Erasure,” a satire of the literary world and its racial biases.
Saturday, February 3, 2024 - 5:00am
By Eleanor Dunn
In Rebecca K Reilly’s book, “Greta & Valdin,” two 20-something siblings navigate love, identity and growing up while wading through the maelstrom of contemporary life.
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 1:02pm
David Grann’s best seller has been turned into an Oscar-nominated film. In this episode, Gilbert Cruz talks about both versions with The Times’s A.O. Scott.
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:58am
By Sarah Weinman
An F. B.I. rookie hunts for a serial killer, four friends seek reparations, a daughter searches for her mother and a community looks for answers in four new mysteries.
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 5:02am
By S.A. Cosby
Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes.