As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out.
Our columnists on new books by John Banville, Kate Christensen under a pseudonym and more.
Our columnists on new books by John Banville, Kate Christensen under a pseudonym and more.
In “Feast While You Can,” two women who have long been nemeses rely on each other to face an ancient terror that has re-emerged.
The actor and foodie admired the Nobel Prize winner’s “Alisse at the Fire,” with “Septology” up next. His own new book is “What I Ate in One Year (and Related Thoughts).”
“I Heard You Paint Houses,” his true-crime best seller about the death of Jimmy Hoffa, was brought to the screen by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro.
His Pulitzer Prize-nominated history of the war was warmly received by the Pentagon, but rejected elsewhere for ignoring what many said made the war “unwinnable.”
Tom Clavin’s “Bandit Heaven” takes us down the “Outlaw Trail” with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Novels by Haruki Murakami and Rebecca Yarros, memoirs by Angela Merkel and Cher, and more.
With a forthcoming nonfiction book and an online army of Nerdfighters, the young-adult author aims to eliminate an entirely curable global scourge.
Writing for anglers and amateurs alike, he found that the sport can reveal as much about people as it does about fish.
Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season.
“Why can’t ballet be a roller coaster?” Helen Pickett said of her and James Bonas’s full-length work, premiering this week at American Ballet Theater.
The eponymous healer in “Sister Deborah” inspires a Black feminist uprising.
Ephron’s entire oeuvre — “When Harry Met Sally,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “Heartburn” and more — is examined in a new book.
Our columnist reviews October’s new horror books.
A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century.
Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.
Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject as popular for her image and writing as for the fascination she inspired for almost half a century.
An atheist in a convent; a bloodthirsty reality show hostess.
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