Book Review: ‘The Birthday Party,’ by Lauren Mauvignier
Laurent Mauvignier’s “The Birthday Party” is a thriller with an intense focus on its characters’ interior worlds.
Eileen Yin-Fei Lo, 85, Dies; Taught Americans How to Cook Chinese Food
She was committed to codifying traditional Chinese cooking techniques when most Americans thought of Chinese food as dishes like chop suey and chow mein.
‘Room’ Will Be Staged on Broadway, Starring Adrienne Warren
Emma Donoghue adapted the show from her best-selling 2010 novel; she also wrote the screenplay for the 2015 film.
Elin Hilderbrand’s Fans Take Nantucket
This month, hundreds of Elin Hilderbrand’s fans flocked to her freezing cold island to dance, shop, do yoga and drink espresso martinis with their favorite author. Why?
Review: “Cobalt Red” by Siddarth Kara
Siddharth Kara’s “Cobalt Red” takes a deep dive into the horrors of mining the valuable mineral — and the many who benefit from others’ suffering.
Book Review: ‘The Guest Lecture,’ by Martin Riker
Martin Riker’s novel “The Guest Lecture” details a tortured night inside the head of a young economist.
Marion Meade, Biographer of Dorothy Parker, Dies at 88
Her books also included biographies of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the suffragist leader Victoria Woodhull, as well as Buster Keaton and Woody Allen.
Paul Harding Captures the Quiet Side of Calamity
It took the author a decade, and some luck, to publish his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Tinkers.” He’s back with another devastating tale, “This Other Eden.”
Book Review: ‘Black and Female,’ by Tsitsi Dangarembga
The essays in “Black and Female” recount the Zimbabwean novelist and filmmaker’s life in the context of colonialism and its aftermaths.
Closing the Book on Promises to Myself
This year’s resolution: No more worrying about all the volumes I know I’ll never read.
Book Review: ‘The World and All That It Holds,’ by Aleksandar Hemon
In the postmodernist novel “The World and All That It Holds,” a Sephardi pharmacist falls in love with a Bosnian soldier as war breaks out in Sarajevo and beyond.
Betty Lee Sung, Pioneering Scholar of Chinese in America, Dies at 98
U.S.-born, she lived for a time in China and then fled it as Japan invaded. She later broke academic ground in New York in the study of the Asian American diaspora.
It Takes a (Book) Village
Book lovers and entrepreneurs have built a community centered on literature in upstate New York.
New Crime Fiction
In Jane Harper’s new book, “Exiles,” set in a small Australian town, a 39-year-old woman disappears from a wine festival — but her infant daughter is found in her stroller, unharmed.
Book Review: ‘The Great Escape,’ by Saket Soni
In “The Great Escape,” Saket Soni, a labor organizer, recounts the ordeal faced by hundreds of Indian workers who were lured to this country on false promises of green cards and sorely mistreated.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Teaching Writing to Retirees Helped Ana Reyes Stay Focused
As she worked on her debut novel, the author of “The House in the Pines” found inspiration in a classroom.
‘Vile,’ ‘Deplorable,’ ‘Full of Lies’: Aleksandar Hemon Is No Fan of Philip Roth
“Roth’s steadfast commitment to the many privileges of male whiteness reliably repels me,” says Hemon, whose new novel is “The World and All That It Holds.” “I also dislike a lot of recent books, but I don’t wish to name them.”
Poem: Early Spring?
The poem’s syntax traverses the hills and valleys of thought as the mind wanders from image to image in a stream-of-consciousness way.
Jonathan Raban, Adventurous Literary Traveler, Dies at 80
An expatriate Briton, he followed Huckleberry Finn’s Mississippi, sailed to Alaska and explored eastern Montana. But, he said, he was not a “travel writer.”
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