Saturday, January 13, 2024 - 7:50am
Not all books tell readers what to call the main character. An editor recommends two that don’t.
Saturday, January 13, 2024 - 5:01am
By Alexandra Alter
In her memoir, “More,” Molly Roden Winter recounts the highs and lows of juggling an open marriage with work and child care.
Saturday, January 13, 2024 - 5:00am
By Chris Bohjalian
“Ilium,” by Lea Carpenter, follows a young woman torn between opposing forces in her double life.
Saturday, January 13, 2024 - 5:00am
By Lauren LeBlanc
In Temim Fruchter’s debut, “City of Laughter,” a grieving daughter dives into her ancestors’ hidden pasts to find closure and meaning in her own life.
Friday, January 12, 2024 - 5:08pm
By Richard Sandomir
His loose style of watercolor painting brought him work for nearly 70 years. He also created about 100 fake van Goghs for the biographical film “Lust for Life.”
Friday, January 12, 2024 - 12:42pm
Each January, the director Steven Soderbergh lists his previous year’s cultural consumption — every movie and TV series watched, every book read. On this week’s episode, we talk books!
Friday, January 12, 2024 - 10:25am
By Adam Nicolson
In a series of revealing essays, the NPR contributor Nell Greenfieldboyce views the events of her life through the lens of natural phenomena.
Friday, January 12, 2024 - 5:00am
By Abby McGanney Nolan
How John Lewis and Coretta Scott King embodied the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy while each creating their own.
Friday, January 12, 2024 - 5:00am
By Sarah Weinman
In these novels, detectives — some real, others self-appointed — investigate deaths in a small town, on board a train, in a haunted French chateau.
Friday, January 12, 2024 - 5:00am
By Judith Newman
The audiobook might be less, well, useful than it is entertainingly honest, unfiltered and even bizarre.