Stephen Breyer means well. Why is his new book, “Reading the Constitution,” so exasperating?
The author has dominated horror fiction, and arguably all popular fiction, for decades. Here’s where to start.
Our columnist reviews this month’s haunting new releases.
In “Death Row Welcomes You,” Steven Hale follows the cases of men in an American prison awaiting execution, examining what they did as well as the people they’ve become.
As “Carrie” turns 50, George R.R. Martin, Sissy Spacek, Tom Hanks, the Archbishop of Canterbury and others recall the powerful impact the writer’s work has had on their lives.
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.
In “Age of Revolutions,” the CNN host promises to shed light on four centuries of social upheavals and to offer insights on the global fractures of the present.
Taken together, two new books tell the century-long story of the revolutionary ideals that transformed the United States, and the counterrevolutionaries who fought them.
In “The Anxious Generation,” Jonathan Haidt says we’re failing children — and takes a firm stand against tech.
Garrard Conley makes his fiction debut with a story about a queer affair between a reverend and a doctor in Puritan New England.
In Ferdia Lennon’s charming debut, “Glorious Exploits,” Athenian prisoners stage Euripides for their wine-swilling, foul-mouthed captors.
In her first essay collection, Becca Rothfeld demonstrates that sometimes, more really is more.
After his partner, Molly Brodak, died by suicide, Blake Butler found painful truths in her journals and personal items.
“Carrie” was published in 1974. Margaret Atwood explains its enduring appeal.
In “Long Live Queer Nightlife,” the L.G.B.T.Q. studies scholar Amin Ghaziani visits a new generation of ad hoc dance parties that have risen from the ashes of the gay bar.
Our columnist reviews saucy new books by Rebecca Ross, Rebekah Weatherspoon and Felicia Grossman.
How did gender became a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject has answers.
Our columnist reviews saucy new books by Rebecca Ross, Rebekah Weatherspoon and Felicia Grossman.
In Lisa Ko’s adventurous novel “Memory Piece,” youthful exploration takes a dark turn for an artist, an activist and a web developer.
In “God’s Ghostwriters,” the historian Candida Moss explores the many people who penned the Scriptures.
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