The Literary Festivals to Hit This Year, From Brooklyn to Singapore
There is a rising interest around the world in events that connect authors with bibliophiles.
In Defense of Poetic Nonsense, With a Character Who Shares Your Frustration
Alice Notley’s new book-length epic, “For the Ride,” follows a figure struggling to figure out the terms of a strange new world.
Don’t Like What’s Happening in Our Country? Run for Local Office
In her new book, Adrienne Martini shares wisdom from her first campaign. (Spoiler alert: She won.)
Blurred Lines: An Essayist’s Dispatches on Slippery States of Being
In “Thin Places,” the bisexual half-Mexican former Christian writer Jordan Kisner offers 13 views of the “in between.”
Fighting to Save Their Tribe From Termination
In her new novel, “The Night Watchman,” Louise Erdrich brings to light a political battle from the 1950s that still reverberates today.
Wrestling With Prejudice in Three Debut Novels
Dennis Staples’s “This Town Sleeps,” Celia Laskey’s “Under the Rainbow” and Nana Oforiatta Ayim’s “The God Child” feature outsiders in unwelcome territory.
Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill
Struggling to pay off her student loans, Eliese Colette Goldbach applied for a job as a steelworker. Her memoir, “Rust,” explores her “complicated love” for the mill that hired her.
Katie Roiphe Puts Her Romantic History Under a Microscope
In “The Power Notebooks,” the author known for her polemical feminism examines her relationships with men, exposing the ways in which she’s ceded power as often as taken it.
Before You Spit in That Vial, Read This Book
In “The Lost Family,” Libby Copeland considers the ramifications of consumer genetic testing.
Don’t Mind Me While I Wear My Dog
In “Separation Anxiety,” Laura Zigman introduces a novel approach to midlife ennui.
In ‘Barn 8,’ a Plot to Steal a Million Chickens
In Deb Olin Unferth’s latest novel, a Brooklyn teenager finds herself in unfamiliar territory: an Iowa egg farm.
Was Dorothy Day a Saint or a Subversive?
A new biography of the Catholic activist, by John Loughery and Blythe Randolph, examines her wholehearted commitment to radical politics and religion.
Frida Kahlo in ‘Gringolandia’
In the early 1930s, Kahlo visited San Francisco, New York and Detroit. “Frida in America,” by Celia Stahr, explores how the trip transformed the artist and her work.
An Actress Descends Into Madness, and Her Daughter Picks Up the Pieces
In Anne Enright’s novel “Actress,” a woman takes stock of her mother’s life, from stardom to obscurity.
Coming of Age, Whether She’s Ready or Not
In Lily King’s new novel, a young woman searches for meaning.
'The Mirror & The Light' Is A Triumphant End To A Spellbinding Story
In this new novel, Hilary Mantel brings her award-winning trilogy on the life of Tudor politician Thomas Cromwell to an end. And even though readers know how this story will end, it's still gripping.
(Image credit: Petra Mayer/NPR)
'Scratched' Spotlights The Value Of A Less Orderly Approach, Harm Of Perfectionism
Elizabeth Tallent writes: "For the sake of perfection, I took a voice, my own, and twisted until mischance and error and experiment were wrung from it, and with them any chance of aliveness."
(Image credit: Harper)
James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ is a Supercharged Urban Farce Lit Up by Thunderbolts of Rage
The National Book Award-winning author’s deeply felt new novel is an American crime story, just not the kind on TV.
'Finna' Warns: Beware Of The Fuzzy Chairs
Nino Cipri's magical multiworld adventure is set in a Swedish big box furniture store — no, not that one — where the showroom floor is prone to interdimensional wormholes that swallow shoppers.
(Image credit: Tor.com)
The Ties That Bind Deutsche Bank and Donald Trump
David Enrich discusses “Dark Towers,” and Kiran Millwood Hargrave talks about “The Mercies.”
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