“These days, my role as an innkeeper occupies me almost as much as fiction,” writes Joyce Maynard, who, during the pandemic, hired locals in a Guatemalan village to turn her writing retreat into a guesthouse.
An ambitious new book by Victor Luckerson traces the history of Greenwood, Okla., from its prosperous early days through the 1921 race massacre and its aftermath.
Elliot Ackerman’s alternate history reimagines the politics and science of the early 21st century.
A new biography by Jane Draycott shines a light on an African queen whose career has been overshadowed by that of her famous forebear.
In Melissa Sevigny’s “Brave the Wild River,” we meet the two scientists who explored unknown terrain — and broke barriers.
In Laura Kay’s new novel, “Wild Things,” a timid young woman embarks on a year of adventure, only to stumble into romance along the way.
The U.S. Department of Education reached a settlement with a Georgia school district after launching an investigation into whether book removals created a hostile environment for students.
As a psychological coach (and ex-player), he helped revive a woeful Cleveland baseball team. He had a WFAN show about youth sports and shepherded best sellers.
Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.
“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
The longtime sports journalist Claude Droussent discusses his new guidebook to cycling in Europe, which uses data from the fitness app Strava, and the growing role bicycles play in worldwide travel.
In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
In books like “Money” and “The Information,” he created “a high style to describe low things,” as he put it. He found more renown as a critic, and a measure of unease as his famous father’s son.
In a video, Mr. Green said he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a very “treatable cancer.”
An editor recommends old and new books.
In Bronwyn Fischer’s debut novel, “The Adult,” an 18-year-old woman leaves her rural hometown for a big-city campus where she falls deep into a love affair — and poetry.
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