Review: ‘Winter Work,’ by Dan Fesperman
Dan Fesperman’s “Winter Work” is set amid confusion and moral compromise in East Germany as Communism fell.
Review: ‘Harry Sylvester Bird,’ by Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta’s second novel attempts to skewer white liberal solipsism.
Among the Literary Lions, at Full Roar, in the 1980s
In “Circus of Dreams,” the literary editor John Walsh writes about the bookish life in London when Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Jeanette Winterson and their generation were in the increasingly bright limelight.
India and the United States: Two Countries That Can’t Live With Each Other or Without Each Other
Meenakshi Ahamed’s “A Matter of Trust” traces the tangled, complicated and difficult relationship between two allies that are not quite friends.
Tanqueray Looks Back at Her Grand and Gritty New York Life
Stephanie Johnson went from burlesque nights in Times Square to internet stardom. “I did it my way and it worked,” she said.
Review: ‘Bad Thoughts,’ by Nada Alic
Nada Alic’s debut story collection pierces superficial appearances to access deeper human connection.
‘Hollywood Ending,’ a Cradle-to-Prison Biography of Harvey Weinstein
Ken Auletta looks for Weinstein’s Rosebud in this dispiriting account of the former movie mogul’s life.
Review: ‘Roll Red Roll,’ by Nancy Schwartzman
In “Roll Red Roll,” Nancy Schwartzman revisits a teenage girl’s 2012 assault by high school football players, and its aftermath.
Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming and Becoming More Diverse
More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people.”
Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming and Becoming More Diverse
More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people.”
Review: ‘The Great Man Theory,’ by Teddy Wayne
It’s a hard world out there for the protagonist of Teddy Wayne’s novel “The Great Man Theory.”
Invisibility, a Hippo and Antiques
Our critic recommends old and new books.
Book Review: “Why Didn’t You Tell Me?” by Carmen Rita Wong and “Normal Family” by Chrysta Bilton
In their memoirs, Carmen Rita Wong and Chrysta Bilton open up about how they learned of secrets, lies and unkept promises.
Book Review: “The Crane Wife” by CJ Hauser
In “The Crane Wife,” CJ Hauser delves into issues of identity and connection with humor and grace.
Alice Elliott Dark on ‘Fellowship Point’
Dark talks about her new novel, and Katherine Chen discusses “Joan,” her fictional imagining of Joan of Arc.
Susie Steiner, Author of Acclaimed British Crime Novels, Dies at 51
Her books found a worldwide audience, but while she wrote them she had to contend with the loss of her sight and the diagnosis of a brain tumor.
Review: ‘Mother Noise,’ by Cindy House; ‘My Seven Black Fathers,’ by Will Jawando; and ‘This Body I Wore,’ by Diana Goetsch
Addiction, fatherhood and transgender identity in new books by Cindy House, Will Jawando and Diana Goetsch.
“Our Fort” by Marie Dorléans
Two siblings, a playful teacher’s class and three friends let their imaginations loose in the great outdoors.
Book Review: “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin
Gabrielle Zevin’s novel “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is a love letter to the Literary Gamer.
New Crime Fiction
In Tom Mead’s “Death and the Conjuror,” a man is found dead in his study, his throat cut. There is no weapon in the room, and the doors are locked — from the inside.
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