‘Meet Me by the Fountain’ Takes a Tour of the Mall
The design critic Alexandra Lange’s new book considers the rise and fall and dicey future of an American institution.
Newly Published, From Teenage D.J.s to the Pope
A selection of books published this week.
In ‘Also a Poet,’ a Search for Frank O’Hara and for Peace With Dad
Ada Calhoun hoped to finish a biography of O’Hara once started by her father, the art critic Peter Schjeldahl. Instead, she wrote a searching memoir about creativity and family.
Book Review: ‘The British Surrealists,’ by Desmond Morris
A famed zoologist returns to his first love, art, in a colorful portrait of the British avant-garde.
Book Review: “Esmond and Ilia,” by Marina Warner
Marina Warner tells the story of her parents’ unlikely marriage as memoir, fairy tale and tragedy.
'Greenland' revives E.M. Forster — and spins a tale of racism and self-discovery
In David Santos Donaldson's debut novel, a young gay Black man gets some supernatural relationship advice from the Black lover of a famous white British writer, both of them long dead.
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Book Review: “O Say Can You Hear? A Cultural Biography of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner,’” by Mark Clague
In his comprehensive study of the national anthem, a historian and musicologist examines our complicated relationship to a famously challenging song.
Book Review: ‘Rough Draft,’ by Katy Tur
In her second memoir, “Rough Draft,” the journalist Katy Tur recounts growing up alongside her parents’ news-gathering exploits and her father’s outlandish, then violent, behavior.
Review: “Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass,” by Frank Close
Frank Close’s “Elusive” looks at the life and work of the man who changed our ideas about the basis of matter.
Review: “We Carry Their Bones,” Erin Kimmerle
Erin Kimmerle’s “We Carry Their Bones” describes efforts to uncover the graves and crimes at a boys’ school in Florida.
Review: “Grand Hotel Europa,” by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer’s “Grand Hotel Europa” combines a comedy of manners with cultural commentary.
Review: “Diary of a Film,” by Niven Govinden
“Diary of a Film,” a novel by Niven Govinden, follows a film director struggling to balance his artistry with real life.
Book Review: “Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter” by Lizzie Pook
Lizzie Pook’s novel about a young woman in the 19th-century outback, “Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter,” examines the perils — moral, physical and otherwise — of the pearling industry.
Review: “Jackie & Me,” by Louis Bayard
In a new novel, “Jackie & Me,” Louis Bayard imagines the road to Camelot from the perspective of a loyal friend.
Book Review: “Pig Years” by Ellen Gaydos
In her memoir, “Pig Years,” Ellyn Gaydos shows readers what it’s like to be a farmhand.
Review: ‘The Men,’ by Sandra Newman; and ‘When Women Were Dragons,’ by Kelly Barnhill
Two speculative novels imagine rather drastic rearrangements to our existing gender relations.
Abortion Politics, Money and the Reshaping of the G.O.P.
In “Dollars for Life,” Mary Ziegler argues that, over the course of decades, the anti-abortion movement laid the groundwork for an insurgent candidate like Donald Trump.
The Very Human Pleasure of Being Read To
From a Terry Pratchett fantasy to memoirs set in Northern Ireland and on a pig farm, these stories are most memorable for the voices telling them.
Tom Perrotta on the Return of Tracy Flick
Perrotta talks about “Tracy Flick Can’t Win,” and Ann Leary discusses “The Foundling.”
Swapping Books Brings Katy Tur Closer to Her Mother
“It’s like getting a postcard from inside the other’s head without even having to talk about it,” says the NBC News correspondent, whose new book is “Rough Draft,” a memoir. “Because who wants to talk about it?”
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