Review: ‘Lungfish,’ by Meghan Gilliss
In Meghan Gilliss’s debut novel, “Lungfish,” a young family maroons itself on a deserted island where sustenance is whatever you can get your hands on.
Andrea Barrett By the Book Interview
“Luckily,” says the novelist and story writer, whose new book is the collection “Natural History,” “the kind librarian at the local Bookmobile let us take any books we could reach (I was ridiculously tall).”
New Psychological Thrillers
In Deanna Raybourn’s “Killers of a Certain Age,” four female assassins, celebrating their retirement after 40-year careers, discover they’ve been marked for death.
Poem: [Suppose my father awoke … ]
This poem begins with “suppose,” which unleashes a speculative imagination through which the speaker reawakens a dead father.
Book Review: ‘The Divider’ Is a Sober Look at the Trump White House
In “The Divider,” political journalists keep their cool as they chronicle the outrageous conduct and ugly infighting that marked a presidency like no other.
The Essential Judy Blume
For 50 years, her books have educated, entertained and connected young readers. Whether you want to revisit a classic or inspire a new fan, here’s what to read.
A Uyghur Author and Translator Were Detained. Now, Their Novel Speaks For Them.
Writing and translating “The Backstreets,” a book about the oppressive environment faced by Uyghurs in China, was a danger to those involved.
Read Your Way Through Helsinki
Pajtim Statovci shares his love of Finnish literature and the books that helped him, a child of immigrants, to find his voice and grow from reader to award-winning writer.
How Yiyun Li Became a Beacon for Readers in Mourning
The novelist Yiyun Li, known for her powerful distillations of personal grief, makes art from subverted expectations.
Review: “Magnificent Rebels,” by Andrea Wulf
“Magnificent Rebels,” by Andrea Wulf, paints a vivid portrait of the 18th-century German Romantics: brilliant intellectuals and poets who could also be petty, thin-skinned and self-involved.
Book Review: “The Village Idiot,” by Steve Stern
In “The Village Idiot,” Steve Stern resurrects Chaim Soutine and the sordid eccentricities of his milieu.
At PEN America, a Complicated Centennial for Free Speech
Literary luminaries gathered in Manhattan to celebrate the organization at a moment when many see support for free speech eroding across the political spectrum.
Could This Political Marriage Be Saved? Biden and Obama Found a Way.
In “The Long Alliance,” Gabriel Debenedetti traces how political leaders of different generations and contrasting temperaments helped each other succeed.
Terri Lyne Carrington Couldn’t Find Jazz Sheet Music by Women. She Fixed That.
The jazz drummer and educator Terri Lyne Carrington’s latest project is “New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers,” a book due Friday, and an album featuring 11 of its selections.
Book Review: “Who’s Raising the Kids?” by Susan Linn
In “Who’s Raising the Kids?” Susan Linn’s searing indictment of corporate greed, tech companies targeting children are rivaled only by the lawmakers who let them get away with it.
Andrew Sean Greer on His New Novel, ‘Less Is Lost’
Andrew Sean Greer was elated, if a little confounded, when his 2017 novel “Less” received the award. Now he’s following it with a sequel, which he knows might raise some eyebrows. So what if it’s unseemly?
Review: “Lessons,” by Ian McEwan
In “Lessons,” the hero is seduced by his piano teacher when he’s 14, then abandoned by his wife while he passively watches history unfold. Are these events connected?
Book Review: ‘I’m the Girl,’ by Courtney Summers
In her Y.A. thriller “I’m the Girl,” Courtney Summers uses a murder mystery to explore pressing questions about female empowerment.
Book Review: “Dinners With Ruth,” by Nina Totenberg
In her memoir, “Dinners With Ruth,” the NPR journalist writes about their parallel ascents in fields that were not friendly to women.
Review: ‘Two Nurses, Smoking,’ by David Means
In his new collection, “Two Nurses, Smoking,” David Means derives power from revealing the workings of his craft.
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