In her debut novel, “Redwood Court,” DéLana R.A. Dameron begins with an innocuous question: “What am I made of?”
A travel memoir; a novel about boredom and erotic reverie.
Lucy Sante recounts the trials and joys of her gender transition in the memoir “I Heard Her Call My Name.”
The movie, with its handful of Oscar nominations, has refocused attention on “Erasure,” a satire of the literary world and its racial biases.
In Rebecca K Reilly’s book, “Greta & Valdin,” two 20-something siblings navigate love, identity and growing up while wading through the maelstrom of contemporary life.
David Grann’s best seller has been turned into an Oscar-nominated film. In this episode, Gilbert Cruz talks about both versions with The Times’s A.O. Scott.
An F. B.I. rookie hunts for a serial killer, four friends seek reparations, a daughter searches for her mother and a community looks for answers in four new mysteries.
Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes.
An F. B.I. rookie hunts for a serial killer, four friends seek reparations, a daughter searches for her mother and a community looks for answers in four new mysteries.
Veera Hiranandani’s “Amil and the After” and Saadia Faruqi’s “The Partition Project” show that the rending of the subcontinent is as relevant and heartbreaking as ever.
The actor reads “Collision of Power,” a new memoir by the famed former editor of The Washington Post and The Boston Globe.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
He insisted that there were no morals to be found in the murder of six million Jews, nor was language itself capable of fully describing it.
“Where you choose to direct your senses, step by step, matters,” says the eminent nature writer. His 30th book, “With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023,” is out in February.
For decades, the author of “In the Night Kitchen” and “The Nutshell Library” fortified himself with art and words.
When this journalist started collecting strangers’ stories about race, she relied on a trusted intermediary: the United States Postal Service.
“The Women” follows a San Diego debutante into a world of gut wounds and napalm. But the real challenge comes when she arrives home.
The genre’s roots date back hundreds of years, to the prison cells and gallows of 17th-century London.
She profiled Vivien Leigh, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Ronald Reagan. She also profiled herself, in two memoirs and an autobiography.
The books offer the promise of an ending where all questions are answered and some sort of justice is done.
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