The Bloody History of True Crime Literature
The genre’s roots date back hundreds of years, to the prison cells and gallows of 17th-century London.
Anne Edwards, Best-Selling ‘Queen of Biography,’ Dies at 96
She profiled Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Ronald Reagan. She also profiled herself, in two memoirs and an autobiography.
What Murder Mysteries Solve
The books offer the promise of an ending where all questions are answered and some sort of justice is done.
Book Review: ‘The Holocaust,’ by Dan Stone
A new book by the historian Dan Stone seeks to amend — and expand — our understanding of the genocide.
Mary McCarthy’s Campus Novel and the Crisis in Higher Education
How a 1950s novel explains the crisis in higher education.
Alice Munro’s Best Work: A Guide
The only prerequisite for reading the Nobel laureate, a master of short stories, is: having lived. Here’s where to start.
The Best 5 Books About Artificial Intelligence
A guide to the best books about artificial intelligence.
Letha Dawson Scanzoni, Pioneer of Evangelical Feminism, Dies at 88
In books like “All We’re Meant to Be” and “Is the Homosexual My Neighbor?” she used the Bible to challenge beliefs that women were inferior to men and that homosexuality was a sin.
The Secret of Thomas Mann’s Translator
A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize.
The Most Powerful Person in Publishing Doesn’t Like to Talk About Himself
Nihar Malaviya, Penguin Random House’s C.E.O., is a behind-the-scenes operator with a significant task: leading the company after a period of messy, and expensive, turbulence.
Book Review: ‘Hard by a Great Forest,’ by Leo Vardiashvili
In Leo Vardiashvili’s first novel, “Hard by a Great Forest,” a young man begins a fraught quest in the country he once fled.
Book Review: ‘One Nation Under Guns,’ by Dominic Erdozain; ‘What We’ve Become,’ by Jonathan M. Metzl
Two new books consider how the country’s obsession with firearms has become an existential threat.
N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer-Winning Native American Novelist, Dies at 89
The success of his novel “House Made of Dawn,” the first work by a Native American to win a Pulitzer, inspired a wave of Native literature.
Audiobooks Are Booming. Spotify Wants in on the Action.
There are early signs that Spotify’s addition of audiobooks to its streaming service is helping drive audiobook consumption — already a growing market.
Where Southerners Go to Fill the Tank and Feed the Family
Are they gas stations that serve food or restaurants that pump gas? A new photography book explores the lure of these restorative community rest stops.
Book Review: ‘Alphabetical Diaries,’ by Sheila Heti
In her new book, the writer presents 10 years of her diaries in an unorthodox arrangement.
17 New Books to Read in February
New novels from Tommy Orange and Kristen Hannah; memoirs from Kara Swisher and Leslie Jamison; a biography of Medgar and Myrlie Evers — and more.
Book Review: ‘Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame,’ by Olivia Ford
In “Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame,” Olivia Ford whips up a sweet confection about a septuagenarian cook with reality TV dreams.
Book Review: ‘Come and Get It,’ by Kiley Reid
In her second novel, “Come and Get It,” Kiley Reid uses chatty college students to make substantive statements about consumerism.
Book Review: ‘Errand Into the Maze,’ by Deborah Jowitt
Deborah Jowitt’s “Errand Into the Maze” revels in the artistry of the dance legend, while downplaying the messy choices in her marathon career.
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