‘Song of the North’ Uses Puppets to Help a Persian Epic Spring to Life
Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.
Book Review: ‘Trespassers at the Golden Gate,’ by Gary Krist
When a woman shot her married lover in 1870s San Francisco, all of America took sides.
Book Review: ‘Red Scare,’ by Clay Risen
In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.
Picture-Book Editions of Two Children’s Stories by Clarice Lispector
In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be.
Book Review: ‘Perfection,’ by Vincenzo Latronico
Vincenzo Latronico’s novel “Perfection” explores the capital of Europe’s expat scene in its heyday.
Felice Picano, Champion of Gay Literature, Is Dead at 81
At a time when, in his words, “nobody was writing about gay life,” he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and published books by Harvey Fierstein and others.
John Feinstein, Sportswriter and Author of ‘A Season on the Brink,’ Dies at 69
A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, golf, football and the Olympics, many of them best sellers.
Jennifer Johnston, Irish Novelist Who Probed Country’s Fault Lines, Dies at 95
She explored tensions among the social classes and within families in fiction that prompted Roddy Doyle to call her “Ireland’s greatest writer.”
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
James Reason, Who Used Swiss Cheese to Explain Human Error, Dies at 86
Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster.
Book Review: ‘Care and Feeding,’ by Laurie Woolever; ‘Cellar Rat,’ by Hannah Selinger
New accounts of working in a man’s world — and that world’s comeuppance — are long on boldface names and even longer on personality.
Interview: Tori Amos on Her Children’s Book and Her Reading Life
His memoir “Growing Up” depicted her hometown “like a shining city on a hill.” Other authors who mean a lot to the musician (and now childrens’ book writer): Kevyn Aucoin and Hilary Mantel.
Book Review: ‘Hypochondria,’ by Will Rees
What started as a scholarly study becomes, in Will Rees’s hands, a freewheeling journey into our brains and souls.
Chris Moore, Illustrator for Classic Sci-Fi Books, Dies at 77
He conjured fantastical worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke. He also left his mark on albums by Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart.
New Novels to Read This Spring
Watch for a new “Hunger Games” prequel; a quirky romance from Emily Henry; novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ocean Vuong; and more.
New Nonfiction to Read This Spring
A posthumous collection of Joan Didion’s diaries, biographies of Yoko Ono and Mark Twain, a history of The Onion — and plenty more.
Book Review: ‘The Antidote,’ by Karen Russell
Karen Russell’s “The Antidote” is set in 1930s Nebraska, when the promising days of the American frontier are over, and white settlers reckon with the consequences of overfarming.
Book Review: ‘Brother Brontë,’ by Mark Leyner
Fernando A. Flores’s new novel imagines a bleak world where books are illegal and deprivation is the norm. It’s a blast.
Book Review: ‘The Next One Is for You,’ by Ali Watkins
“The Next One Is for You” chronicles the effects of the Troubles on both sides of the Atlantic.
From pointy hats to murder of innocents, 'The Story of Witches' revives the past
Willow Winsham's new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art.
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