The author of “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” received the D.H. Lawrence novel after her wedding in 1959: “The marriage didn’t last but the honeymoon was memorable.”
A new memoir traces the three-time Tony Award winner’s life and career working with Balanchine, Robbins and Fosse.
In “The Best Minds,” Jonathan Rosen pieces together how he and his brilliant classmate diverged after Long Island, Yale and enviable careers.
Laura Dern and her mother, Diane Ladd, both made careers in the movies. In “Honey, Baby, Mine,” they drop names, rehash arguments and lean on each other.
The scholar Christina Sharpe’s new book comprises memories, observations, artifacts and artworks — fragments attesting to the persistence of prejudice while allowing glimpses of something like hope.
A selection of recently published books.
In “Greek Lessons,” Han Kang’s latest novel to be translated into English, a young Korean mother is suddenly unable to speak.
Henri Cole’s sonnets, gathered in “Gravity and Center,” reject most of the form’s constraints but embrace its ability to show how thought works.
Julia Lee’s memoir, “Biting the Hand,” is about forging an identity in a nation of boundaries.
Books by Maryse Condé and Eva Baltasar are among six nominees for the prestigious award for fiction translated into English.
In Brendan Slocumb’s sophomore novel, “Symphony of Secrets,” a professor is tasked with deciphering a rediscovered opera, only to uncover a historical betrayal.
Books by Elvira Lindo, Blair Hurley, Ramona Ausubel and Nathacha Appanah take on crises of kinship.
Inspired by the 20th-century migrations of her grandmother, Elizabeth Graver’s new novel, “Kantika,” depicts lives filled with music, ritual and hardship across continents and cultures.
Julia Argy’s debut novel, “The One,” goes behind the cameras at a reality TV show. Is the protagonist there for the right reasons?
The first round of funding for the year will support over 250 projects across the country.
Mack McCormick’s long-awaited book about the musician Robert Johnson has arrived, in modest and expurgated form.
Her new memoir finds the 90-year-old singer-dancer hungry for acclaim, but generous to others on her way to getting it.
For her first book, “The Forgotten Girls,” Monica Potts returned to her hometown in Arkansas to figure out why so many of her peers were struggling.
In “Invisibility,” the professor of physics and optical science Gregory J. Gbur examines the past and future of everyone’s favorite plot device.
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