Essential Colette Books
The author, considered by some to be the greatest French writer of her time, played with words and convention. Here’s where to start with her work.
A Trailblazing Black Cartoonist’s Work: ‘It’s Unapologetic, and It’s the Truth’
Barbara Brandon-Croft’s series “Where I’m Coming From” was the first by a Black female cartoonist to be picked up by a major national syndicate. Her strips, now collected in a book, got plenty right about how we still live today.
Book Review: ‘Holding Fire,’ by Bryce Andrews
In his memoir “Holding Fire,” Bryce Andrews confronts the violence and guilt of past generations.
Book Review: ‘Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop,’ by Martin Puchner
Martin Puchner’s new book is a forceful rebuke to those who argue that culture can be owned by groups, nations, religions or races.
Book Review: ‘The Unfortunates,’ by J K Chukwu
J K Chukwu wrote “The Unfortunates,” her playful, powerful debut novel, in the form of an academic thesis.
Mieko Kawakami Is a Feminist Icon in Japan. She Has Other Ambitions.
Will the Japanese novelist Mieko Kawakami’s stark explorations of class translate to American readers?
Review: ‘A Hacker’s Mind,’ by Bruce Schneier
In “A Hacker’s Mind,” Bruce Schneier goes beyond the black-hoodie clichés.
Review: ‘Lives of the Wives,’ by Carmela Ciuraru
Carmela Ciuraru’s “Lives of the Wives” explores five literary unions fraught with resentment, ego and abysmal behavior.
Book Review: ‘Your Driver Is Waiting,’ by Priya Guns
Priya Guns takes on classism and racism in her debut novel, “Your Driver Is Waiting.”
Book Review: ‘Stealing,’ by Margaret Verble
In Margaret Verble’s latest novel, “Stealing,” a Cherokee girl is kidnapped and sent to a Christian school, where terrors reign.
Book Review: ‘Couplets,’ by Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner’s first book, “Couplets,” breathes new life into an old form to tell the story of a romance that catches its heroine off guard.
The Essential Colette
The author, considered by some to be the greatest French writer of her time, played with words and convention. Here’s where to start with her work.
Book Review: ‘Up With the Sun,’ by Thomas Mallon
In his name-dropping novel “Up With the Sun,” Thomas Mallon fictionalizes the minor career and tabloid murder of the Broadway actor Dick Kallman.
Reveling in the Eerie and the Spooky, but Finding ‘True Horror’ in Real Life
The author Mariana Enriquez deploys — and enjoys — horror conventions. But in “Our Share of Night,” she reminds readers that the violence we live with can be far more frightening.
Book Review: ‘The Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3,” by Kira Yarmysh
A debut novel from Kira Yarmysh, a longtime critic of Vladimir Putin, offers an intimate look at political imprisonment.
Book Review: ‘The Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3,” by Kira Yarmysh
A debut novel from Kira Yarmysh, a longtime critic of Vladimir Putin, offers an intimate look at political imprisonment.
With ‘The Critic’s Daughter,” Priscilla Gilman Joins the Ranks of Literary Daughters Who Take on Their Literary Fathers
With “The Critic’s Daughter: A Memoir,” Priscilla Gilman, daughter of the theater critic Richard Gilman, joins the ranks of writers whose memoirs examine their famous, and flawed, fathers.
Book Review: ‘Stone Blind,’ by Natalie Haynes
Natalie Haynes’s new novel, “Stone Blind,” continues her retellings of Greek legends, this one featuring the snake-haired Gorgon, long a symbol of female monstrosity.
Book Review: ‘A Spell of Good Things,’ by Ayòbámi Adébáyò
In Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s “A Spell of Good Things,” the lives of a working-class boy and a wealthy young doctor converge to expose the precarity of the social order.
Turning Nairobi’s Public Libraries Into ‘Palaces for the People’
A Kenyan nonprofit is restoring iconic public libraries, leaving behind a segregated past and turning them into inclusive spaces.
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