Book Review: ‘Mexikid’ and ‘Salsa Magic’ Help Children Celebrate Hispanic Heritage
A Mexican American family heads to Jalisco in their Winnebago and a “bruja” from Puerto Rico steps out of a cab in Brooklyn.
Michael Cunningham Talks About ‘Day,’ His New Novel
His new book, “Day,” is his first in nearly a decade. “How does anybody,” he said, “write a contemporary novel that’s about human beings that’s not about the pandemic?”
Drew Barrymore Dropped as National Book Awards Host After Strike Backlash
The actor and TV host’s decision to return her talk show to the air, bypassing striking writers, made her a magnet for criticism, online and off.
Pulitzer Prizes Expand Eligibility to Noncitizens
The jury for the memoir category had raised concerns that the citizenship requirement was excluding a large part of American culture.
'Daughter' explores a dysfunctional relationship between father and daughter
Daughter is an intensely psychological novel, one that poses questions it doesn't, and maybe can't, answer. There are flashes of Claudia Dey's usually excellent writing, but not consistently enough.
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Egos! Drama! Desmond Child, a Pop Hitmaker, Is Telling His Story.
He helped write indelible hits by Bon Jovi, Katy Perry and Ricky Martin. Now he’s written his own life story.
‘Water for Elephants’ Musical to Arrive on Broadway Next Spring
The show, with a group of circus artists as part of the cast, is adapted from Sara Gruen’s best-selling novel.
What Happens on Page 76 in This Season’s Books?
The artist Mosie Romney envisions new releases by Major Jackson, Ayana Mathis and more.
Book Review: ‘Taming the Street,’ by Diana B. Henriques, and ‘The Problem of the Twelve,” by John Coates
“Taming the Street,” by Diana B. Henriques, and “The Problem of Twelve,” by John Coates, tell the story of America’s powerful and unwieldy financial institutions.
Book Review: ‘The Six,’ by Loren Grush
In a group portrait of America’s first female astronauts, Loren Grush details the basics of training and the challenges of sexism without lionizing her heroines.
Book Review: ‘A House for Alice,’ by Diana Evans
In Diana Evans’s new novel, “A House for Alice,” a woman who immigrated to Britain for marriage must decide whether or not to return to her country of origin after her husband dies.
Book Review: ‘The Death of Public School,’ by Cara Fitzpatrick
In a new book, Cara Fitzpatrick traces the rise of the movement to expand public funding for privately operated institutions.
In J.M. Coetzee’s New Novel, Love Awakens an Austere Soul
“The Pole” explores romance, mortality and the tangled ways we communicate.
Putting Women at the Center of Human Evolution
Cat Bohannon’s book, “Eve,” looks at the way women’s bodies evolved, and how a focus on male subjects in science has left women “under-studied and under-cared for.”
Book Review: ‘Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career,’ by Kristi Coulter
In her new memoir, “Exit Interview,” Kristi Coulter details her time working at the company, connecting her experience to the larger history of women’s employment struggles.
Book Review: ‘Pockets,’ by Hannah Carlson
In her nifty “Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close,” Hannah Carlson unbuttons the politics behind who gets to hide their belongings, and where.
Book Review: ‘Crossings,’ by Ben Goldfarb
In “Crossings,” Ben Goldfarb shows that our dependence on highways and freeways is an environmental concern as well as a social one.
Book Review: ‘Nineteen Steps,’ by Millie Bobby Brown
In her debut novel, the British actor elaborates on a story told to her by her grandmother.
Book Review: ‘Elon Musk,’ by Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson’s biography of the billionaire entrepreneur depicts a mercurial “man-child” with grandiose ambitions and an ego to match.
Tumultuous Family Stories, Two Ways
Dissolving a marriage; raising a granddaughter.
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