Demi Moore, Julie Andrews and Carly Simon Tell All
These three memoirs were all written by famous women — but that’s about all they have in common.
An Inventor’s Life That Was Incandescent Any Way You Look at It
In a new biography of Thomas Edison, Edmund Morris tells the story in reverse — starting at the end and going backward to his birth.
Former Cambridge Analytica Director Says She Saw Company Techniques 'As Savvy'
There's a victim-blamey tone in Brittany Kaiser's memoir Targeted, but what it offers over other look-backs is a more in-the-room account of what exactly, she alleges, was in the company's pitch deck.
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Trump's Former VA Secretary Describes 'Toxic' Washington Culture In New Book
David Shulkin's memoir, It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country, focuses on his time as veterans affairs secretary, tells of his fights against privatizing the VA — and settles some scores.
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Tim O’Brien, a Veteran of War and Fatherhood, Opens Up to His Sons
In “Dad’s Maybe Book,” based on letters to his children over the years, the author reflects on life, death and literature.
Rescuing Native Americans From the Imaginative Prison of the Past
Finally, there is a critical mass of children’s picture books about Indigenous people living vibrant, diverse, contemporary lives.
As a Father Lies Dying, His Family Reckons With Their Troubled Legacy
Jami Attenberg’s new novel, “All This Could Be Yours,” explores the lasting consequences of bad behavior.
A Romantic Comedy So Dark It Makes You Cry
The narrator of Lara Vapnyar’s “Divide Me by Zero” uses her dying mother’s unfinished math project to cope with two lovers, a husband and a stalled novel.
The First Arabic Novel to Win the International Booker Prize
Jokha Alharthi’s inventive multigenerational tale, “Celestial Bodies,” is also the first novel by an Omani woman to be translated into English.
3 Fresh New Romances For October
As the October days shorten, it's a good time to curl up with a romance novel — this month, we're featuring stories about people who defy traditional expectations to find their happy-ever-afters.
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She Made Thinking Exciting: The Life and Work of Susan Sontag
“Sontag,” Benjamin Moser’s new biography, is a skilled, lively book that works hard to capture a severely complex person.
In 'The Less People Know About Us' A Mysterious Identity Theft Hits Close To Home
Axton Betz-Hamilton was 12 when her family's mail began disappearing. Her memoir details what follows and, when she discovers the culprit, the painful process of collecting the pieces of her past.
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'Curious Toys' Gets Itself Into Unnecessary Trouble
Elizabeth Hand's new historical thriller has a compelling main character and vivid, carefully drawn settings — but its treatment of the story's murderous villain leaves an unpleasant aftertaste.
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In 'Reincarnation Stories,' Visual Exuberance Masks Artistic Care
Legendary underground cartoonist Kim Deitch's new book is packed with monkeys, cartoon magpies, and even Jesus; it starts with an account of killing time after eye surgery and gets wilder from there.
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For Some Horror Writers, Nothing Is Scarier Than a Changing Planet
While literary fiction often sidesteps the climate crisis, eco-horror is filling the breach.
It’s Fall, So the Best-Seller Lists Are Brimming With New Books
One of them, Jason Reynolds’s middle-grade novel “Look Both Ways,” is a National Book Award finalist.
What’s in the Murder Book? Marilyn Stasio Wants to Know.
Her latest Crime column features a cold case for Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch and whodunits from Susan Isaacs, Charles Todd and Deborah Crombie.
Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’
Williams talks about his new memoir, “Self-Portrait in Black and White,” and Stephen Kinzer discusses “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.”
Movies Cast A Spell In 'Show People'
Author Michael Newton waxes rhapsodic in his new book about a century of acting, with a special fondness for performances about performance; it's taken for granted how much we love movies.
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When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr.
“The Fire Is Upon Us,” by Nicholas Buccola, is at once a biography of two leading American intellectuals and an in-depth look at their legendary 1965 debate over civil rights.
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