Book Review: ‘The Half Moon,’ by Mary Beth Keane
On its surface, Mary Beth Keane’s new novel is about a faltering marriage. But it’s also about small moments that matter.
Alexandra Auder, Daughter of Viva, Tells Her Story in a New Memoir
After an unruly childhood in the Chelsea Hotel and online fame as a yoga parodist, Alexandra Auder writes an ode to bohemian Manhattan and her singular mother, Viva.
Rabbi Harold S. Kushner, Reassuring Best-Selling Author, Dies at 88
With a wide-reaching spiritual message in books like “When Bad Things Happen to Good People,” he drew on his own experience with grief and doubt.
Eleanor Catton on ‘Birnam Wood’
The New Zealand writer, who won the Man Booker Prize in 2013 for her novel “The Luminaries,” discusses her latest book.
What I’m Reading: Wives and Muses Edition
A look at women who inspired great art and literature and what might have been.
Book Review: ‘The Last Catastrophe,’ by Allegra Hyde; ‘The Archivists,’ by Daphne Kalotay; ‘The House of Love and Prayer,’ by Tova Reich; ‘The People Who Report More Stress,’ by Alejandro Varela
New collections by Allegra Hyde, Daphne Kalotay, Tova Reich and Alejandro Varela range in subject from everyday minutia to our dystopian future.
Book Review: ‘Chain-Gang All-Stars,’ by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
You can’t applaud Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s thrilling debut novel, “Chain-Gang All-Stars,” without getting blood on your hands.
Book Review: ‘A History of Burning,’ by Janika Oza
In her debut novel, “A History of Burning,” Janika Oza creates an ambitious conflagration of characters, languages and continents.
Fresh Spring Romance Novels
Historicals, contemporaries, fantasies — there’s something for everyone here.
A Joan Didion Party at the New York Public Library
Writers and editors celebrated the author, and sampled her recipes, at a party commemorating the library’s acquisition of her voluminous archive.
The Drama of Letters, Swirling With Suspense
Irish Repertory Theater’s Letters Series is a reminder: For sketching the arc of a relationship, nothing compares to intimate correspondence, our critic writes.
The Antiquarian Book Fair: From 1750s True Crime to Warhol’s Cats
Nearly 200 dealers from 17 countries will bring plenty of acknowledged treasures and quirky surprises to the Park Avenue Armory this weekend.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Review: Periods and Question Marks
Judy Blume’s groundbreaking novel about puberty — and so much more — finally gets the adaptation it deserves.
Why ‘Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret’ Still Matters
Judy Blume’s coming-of-age story finally hits the big screen this month. The book will always have a spotlight of its own.
Should a Biographer Have Boundaries? Jeff Benedict Says Yes.
While writing about LeBron James, the veteran author chose not to probe the identity of his subject’s father. His reasons were personal.
Poem: pour la CGT
Spare, plain-spoken and true, this is a master class on poetry’s ability to confound the easy answer.
By the Book: The Novel That Led Abraham Verghese to Medicine
“I’m ashamed to say I picked up W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘Of Human Bondage’ because the title seemed promising,” says the doctor and novelist, whose new novel is “The Covenant of Water.” “While it didn’t have the lascivious content I’d imagined, it turned out to have something better: It was the book that … called me to medicine.”
New Military History Books
Three new books about the history of warfare have much to tell us.
‘Knowing What We Know,’ by Simon Winchester
In his latest work, Simon Winchester devotes his anecdotal powers to why, how and how often we know what we do.
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