The uterus has been a site of medical, and moral, scrutiny for centuries. In her new book, “Womb,” the midwife Leah Hazard explains what we know about the uterus — and how much we’ve yet to discover.
In Alice Winn’s debut novel, “In Memoriam,” two schoolboys hiding from their feelings for each other enlist in the military during World War I, where they find romance and catastrophe.
“Banzeiro Òkòtó,” by Eliane Brum, considers the devastating impacts of mass deforestation on Brazil and its people.
In Jacqueline Holland’s debut novel, “The God of Endings,” a preschool teacher with a terrible secret fights her most demonic craving for 150 years.
“River Spirit,” a novel by Leila Aboulela, follows an enslaved girl in a turbulent 19th-century Sudan.
At La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes.
In “The Curator,” a historical fantasy by Owen King, a woman searches for answers about her brother’s death in a time of unrest.
Pulse-pounding, nail-biting new novels guaranteed to deliver delicious reading chills.
Throughout her four-decade literary career, the Guadeloupean writer has explored a global vision of the Black diaspora, and placed Caribbean life at the center.
In photographs and journal entries, Yevgenia Belorusets captures Kyiv in the early days of Russia’s invasion.
When Alice Winn stumbled on the archives of her British boarding school’s newspaper, she discovered a world, only to see it “destroyed and dismantled” during World War I. She brought it back in her novel, “In Memoriam.”
“Happily,” a book of essays by Sabrina Orah Mark, reveals the lessons that children’s stories teach us well into adulthood.
The enduring appeal of a midcentury Japanese novelist who wrote of alienation and suicide.
First Jenny Odell examined our obsession with productivity. Now she’s turned to our relationship with time — and what happens when you remove the grid.
In her second novel, “The Farewell Tour,” Stephanie Clifford follows a veteran singer who’s wrapping up a long career on her own terms.
The Times’s critic Dwight Garner looks back on Michael Lesy’s cult classic of documentary literature, which was first published in 1973.
What older novels, plays and poems by African American writers are being — or should be — rediscovered?
In Jenny Jackson’s debut novel, “Pineapple Street,” readers get a tour of a world they might learn not to envy by the end of the book.
Her new story collection, “Old Babes in the Wood,” offers elegiac scenes from a marriage plus a grab bag of curious fables.
In Daniel Nayeri’s new middle grade novel, a runaway orphan boy joins a caravan and falls under the sway of its loquacious leader.
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