Two Horror Authors on the Scary Books You Should Read
Stephen Graham Jones and Joe Hill with their recommendations for this Halloween season.
Helen Pickett Brings ‘Crime and Punishment’ to American Ballet Theater
“Why can’t ballet be a roller coaster?” Helen Pickett said of her and James Bonas’s full-length work, premiering this week at American Ballet Theater.
Book Review: ‘Sister Deborah,’ by Scholastique Mukasonga
The eponymous healer in “Sister Deborah” inspires a Black feminist uprising.
Taking on Nora Ephron, Movie by Movie and Book by Book
Ephron’s entire oeuvre — “When Harry Met Sally,” “You’ve Got Mail,” “Heartburn” and more — is examined in a new book.
New Horror for Readers Who Want to Be Completely Terrified
Our columnist reviews October’s new horror books.
Book Review: ‘Mondrian,’ by Nicholas Fox Weber
A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century.
Three New Books Make the Case for Music as Medicine
Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.
Joan Didion Remains as Elusive as Ever. These Books Want to Fix That.
Since her death, Didion has become a literary subject as popular for her image and writing as for the fascination she inspired for almost half a century.
2 Novels About Complicated Nuns
An atheist in a convent; a bloodthirsty reality show hostess.
How ‘McNeal,’ a Play About A.I., Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway
In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.
New Historical Fiction Books Loaded With Witches, Fiends and Demons
These books are perfect for the spooky season.
New Historical Fiction for Halloween
These books are perfect for the spooky season.
Book Review: ‘The Great When,’ by Alan Moore, and ‘The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic’
With the first volume of a new series and an instructional book on magic, the “Watchmen” author wants an imaginary revolution.
Gary Indiana: An Appreciation
From downtown New York, the writer both scrutinized and kept ahead of a turbulent world.
Gary Indiana, Acerbic Cultural Critic and Novelist, Dies at 74
He made films, video art and photographs, but was best known as a pioneering art critic and mordant novelist.
‘Good Omens’ Season 3 Cut Short Amid Allegations Against Neil Gaiman
The series is the third production linked to the author to face turmoil after allegations made by five women surfaced this summer.
Singer/songwriter Randy Newman looks back on his decades-long music career
Ken Tucker reviews Robert Hilburn's biography of Newman, A Few Words in Defense of Our Country. Plus, we listen back to a 1998 archival interview with the Grammy Award-winning artist.
Susanna Clarke Wrote a Hit Novel Set in a Magical Realm. Then She Disappeared.
Twenty years after the publication of her fantasy debut, “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell,” Clarke is returning to her richly imagined world of magical England.
Ada Limón’s Poem, ‘In Praise of Mystery,’ Hitches a Ride on a NASA Rocket
NASA and the U.S. Poet Laureate may not be obvious collaborators, but a Jupiter-bound mission helped them find common ground.
Book Review: ‘My Good Bright Wolf,’ by Sarah Moss
The English writer Sarah Moss brings her trademark subtlety and sense of the ominous to her harrowing memoir.
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