The Best Elin Hilderbrand Books
She’s the bard of Nantucket and the doyenne of flip-flops, outdoor showers and pink sunsets. Haven’t read her books? Start here.
It’s Time to Sweat It Out and Get Pumped With Alison Bechdel
In her new graphic memoir, “The Secret to Superhuman Strength,” Bechdel turns to her relationship to exercise and a lifelong interest in what connects mind and body.
Excuse Me While I Steal Your Book Idea and Get Famous
Jean Hanff Korelitz’s “The Plot” is an addictive Russian nesting doll of a novel where every character’s hand fits neatly into someone else’s pocket.
‘The Plot,’ by Jean Hanff Korelitz: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Plot,” by Jean Hanff Korelitz
'Notes On Grief' Makes Visceral The Experience Of Death And Grieving
"'After the burial we can begin to heal,'" Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie recounts her mother saying. Perhaps in the reading of this book, so too will the rest of us who lost so much over this past year.
(Image credit: Knopf)
From Cape Cod to Martha’s Vineyard to the Caribbean, These Beach Reads Will Whisk You Into Summer
New novels by Jennifer Weiner, Sunny Hostin and Katherine St. John
‘Mary Jane,’ by Jessica Anya Blau: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Mary Jane,” by Jessica Anya Blau
The Victorian Women Who Pierced Glass Ceilings by Speaking to the Dead
“Out of the Shadows,” by Emily Midorikawa, features six 19th-century women Spiritualists who defied gender norms to command public attention.
An Island Nation With Mighty Clout
“How Iceland Changed the World,” by Egill Bjarnason, offers a jaunty history of a small country with an outsize influence on global affairs.
The French Count Who Turned His Home Into a Museum to Honor His Dead Son
“Letters to Camondo,” by Edmund de Waal, is addressed to a wealthy fin-de-siècle French Jew whose elegant Parisian home is filled with priceless objets d’art — and memories of the family that once lived there.
How Napoleon Became One of History’s Most Rapacious Art Looters
“Plunder,” by Cynthia Saltzman, recounts the French general’s vast thefts of European art and sculpture through the story of a single magnificent painting, Veronese’s “The Wedding Feast at Cana.”
An Anti-Gang Activist, a Shooting and a Community Long Abused and Ignored
“The Holly,” by Julian Rubinstein, explores the history of gang violence in a historically Black Denver neighborhood, and the often misguided efforts of law enforcement agencies to reduce it.
Book Review: ‘While Justice Sleeps,’ by Stacey Abrams
In “While Justice Sleeps,” the veteran author and voting rights activist takes on the Supreme Court, biotech and blackmail — among other topics.
The Babysitter Knows All
In Jessica Anya Blau’s debut novel, “Mary Jane,” a 14-year-old receives an education from the family she works for — and delivers one in return.
How Humans Gained an ‘Extra Life’
In Steven Johnson’s latest book, he looks at what he calls “one of the greatest achievements in the history of our species,” that life spans have more than doubled since the mid-19th century.
Oprah Winfrey, Keanu Reeves to Participate in New Book Show
The U.S. Book Show hopes to fill the void left by BookExpo, an annual convention that attracted thousands of booksellers, librarians and publishing professionals.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘My Madness Will Now Bare Itself’
In “Notes on Grief,” the author mourns the father she lost suddenly in June 2020.
'The Most Beautiful Girl In Cuba' Steps Out Of The Headlines And Onto The Page
The Spanish-American war serves as the backdrop for Chanel Cleeton's new novel, which follows a real-life rebel named Evangelina Cisneros, who attracted a lot of attention from American newspapers.
(Image credit: Berkley)
Compassion Is The True Test Of A Person In 'Second Place'
Rachel Cusk follows her acclaimed Outline trilogy with this story about a woman whose lifelong obsession with a truculent painter is tested when he comes to stay at a cottage on her property.
(Image credit: Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help
“To the Lighthouse” and “Beloved” suggest how to envision a world we might actually want to re-enter.
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