‘Design Mom’ Gabrielle Blair Pivots to Politics
After 16 years of making a name for herself as a blogger and home decor expert, Design Mom has written her manifesto — about reproductive health.
Books on Democracy Under Threat
It’s among the world’s oldest forms of government, but it’s increasingly under threat. These books consider the sources and effects of an alarming global trend.
Steps in the Left Direction
Playbooks for political change from Robert Kuttner and Eric Holder, and a historian’s warning about the heart of the resistance.
Book Review: ‘Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party,’ by Stephen Shames and Ericka Huggins
From schools to free food and health care, the group’s majority female membership carried out life-sustaining, grass-roots programs that went far beyond politics.
Book Review: “We All Want Impossible Things,” by Catherine Newman
In her novel “We All Want Impossible Things,” Catherine Newman achieves the near-impossible: a story about death, with humor.
For ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble,’ Claire Danes and Jesse Eisenberg Say I Do
The actors share a doomed union in this new FX series. In a joint interview, they discuss their own marriages and how it felt to depict such a contentious one.
Adaptations of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ Are Proliferating
Suddenly, remakes and adaptations of L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne of Green Gables” series are proliferating.
Ukrainians Turn to Diaries for Solace, and to Share Life in Wartime
Writers have long used diaries to make sense of life. Now, diaries can be shared in real time, helping shape public perception of events as they unfold — including war.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Hannah Pick-Goslar, a Presence in Anne Frank’s Diary, Dies at 93
The two young women knew each other from kindergarten until their final encounter, on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Philip Hiat, Rabbi Who Forged Bonds With Other Faiths, Dies at 95
His bridge-building efforts notably included a book and traveling exhibition of Jewish manuscripts from the Vatican’s archives.
Her Plan for Putting the World Back Together? Trees.
Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s connection to trees stems from an ancient Irish prophecy she heard in childhood. And she thinks trees are crucial in addressing climate change.
Brigitte Giraud Wins Goncourt Prize With Tragic Novel of Loss
The prestigious French literary award went to “Living Fast,” or “Vivre Vite,” which explores the causes of an accident that killed the author’s partner.
In ‘Dangerous Liaisons,’ Alice Englert and Nicholas Denton Play the Game
In a decadent new Starz drama, the two actors play young versions of literature’s most poisoned and poisonous power couple.
Book Review: ‘Shanda,’ by Letty Cottin Pogrebin; ‘A Girlhood,’ by Carolyn Hays; ‘The Family Outing,’ by Jessi Hempel
From lost children to sexual and gender identity, moral crises abound.
Bono By the Book Interview
“I got a copy of Edna O’ Brien’s ‘The Country Girls’ growing up, which hurried my puberty to a place where I thought differently about girls and women,” says the singer and frontman for U2, whose new memoir is “Surrender.” “I still do.”
Bono By the Book Interview
“I got a copy of Edna O’ Brien’s ‘The Country Girls’ growing up, which hurried my puberty to a place where I thought differently about girls and women,” says the singer and frontman for U2, whose new memoir is “Surrender.” “I still do.”
Sizzling, Sparking, White-Hot Romance Novels
Nothing is more satisfying than the emotional combustion of characters who were meant to be together.
Poem: Metaphor of the Floating Life
Images articulate the feelings of a “divided self” and a sense of being everywhere and nowhere at once.
Review: ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ Gets Joan Didion’s Intention Just Right
A play based on the writer’s memoir about the death of her husband, in its first New York revival, goes small to powerful effect.
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