5 Spooky Halloween Comics for Horror Fans
Tales of horror and suspense are customary in the world of comics. Here is a selection of three new books and two ongoing series with sinister slants.
Book Review: ‘The Ransomware Hunting Team,’ by Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden
In their new book, Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden explain how a ragtag band of international tech nerds have defended the defenseless against cybercrime.
Book Review: ‘The Song of the Cell,’ by Siddhartha Mukherjee
“The Song of the Cell,” the latest work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist, recounts our evolving understanding of the body’s smallest structural and functional unit — and its implications for everything from immune therapy and in vitro fertilization to Covid-19.
The One Where Matthew Perry Writes an Addiction Memoir
In “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” the actor gets serious about sobriety, mortality, colostomy bags and pickleball.
Book Review: ‘The Women of Rothschild,’ by Natalie Livingstone
A new biography by Natalie Livingstone focuses on several generations of the banking family’s wives and daughters, documenting their passions for politics, science and music, all abetted by wealth and social connections.
Elizabeth Hardwick’s Master Class on Literature and Life
In his elegiac memoir, “Come Back in September,” the novelist and critic Darryl Pinckney recalls his former writing teacher and lifelong friend, and the vibrant New York intellectual world they once inhabited.
Monkeys, Mysteries and Murder
Our critic recommends old and new books
Book Review: ‘The Revolutionary,’ by Stacy Schiff
In “The Revolutionary,” Stacy Schiff presents an enthralling portrait of Samuel Adams, who, perhaps more than any other of America’s founders, set the country on its course toward independence.
Book Review: ‘The Pachinko Parlor,” by Elisa Shua Dusapin
The National Book Award-winning author and translator of “Winter in Sokcho” return with another quietly powerful tale of dislocation.
Book Review: ‘The Confessions of Matthew Strong,” by Ousmane K. Power-Greene
In Ousmane K. Power-Greene’s “The Confessions of Matthew Strong,” a white supremacist kidnaps a Black academic and traps her on a Southern plantation.
‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment
Hanya Yanagihara’s best-selling novel comes to the BAM stage, and raises the question: How much suffering can the protagonist (and the audience) endure?
Siddhartha Mukherjee Talks About ‘The Gene’
The oncologist and Pulitzer-winning science writer discusses his 2016 book about the history of genetics, and the novelist Kate Atkinson talks about her spy novel “Transcription.”
New Story Collections From T.C. Boyle, Andrea Barrett and Others
Short fiction by T.C. Boyle, Jane Campbell, Andrea Barrett and Peter Christopher.
Book Review: ‘On Every Tide,’ by Sean Connolly
“On Every Tide,” by the historian Sean Connolly, traces the patterns — and staggering numbers — of Irish migration from the 19th century to the 21st.
Book Review: ‘The Ruin of All Witches,’ by Malcolm Gaskill
“The Ruin of All Witches,” by Malcolm Gaskill, is a riveting history of life in a 17th-century New England frontier town, where the stress of isolation, foul weather, disease and death led inexorably to accusations of witchcraft.
New Psychological Thrillers
In Simon Stephenson’s new novel, “Sometimes People Die,” patients at a London hospital are dying at a rapid clip — especially ones who shouldn’t be.
Book Review: ‘Is Mother Dead,’ by Vigdis Hjorth
The Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s new novel, “Is Mother Dead,” features a middle-aged painter desperate to reconcile with the parent from whom she has long been estranged.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In ‘From Scratch,’ the Locke Sisters Tell a Story of Love, Loss and Food
For the new Netflix series, Tembi Locke joined forces with her younger sister, Attica, a successful novelist and TV writer, to adapt her own memoir.
Roger Welsch, ‘America’s Premier Storyteller,’ Dies at 85
Author, humorist and tractor buff, he quit academia and found fame as a correspondent from the Nebraska heartland for the CBS News program “Sunday Morning.”
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