Books News: Lupita Nyong’o to Publish a Children’s Book
Drawing on her experience as a child who felt self-conscious about her dark skin, the actress hopes to help other kids reimagine what is beautiful.
'Girls In The Picture' Traces A Friendship In The Flickers
A century ago, Hollywood had no stars. Movies were silent and the actors were anonymous. Melanie Benjamin's new novel outlines how actress Mary Pickford and writer Frances Marion changed that.
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Nonfiction: Gifted and Talented and Complicated
In “Off the Charts,” Ann Hulbert examines the lives of child prodigies, who often fail to sustain their accomplishments into adulthood.
Fiction: A Novel of 1918 New Orleans, With Murder and All That Jazz
In Nathaniel Rich’s “King Zeno,” a great American city and a new kind of music take shape as the Spanish flu and a serial killer both run rampant.
See A Famous Monster Come Alive In 'Frankenstein: The 1818 Text'
Most stage and screen versions of Frankenstein are based on a later edition of Mary Shelley's classic — this new reprint of her original text shows the story growing and changing with its author.
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Interview: No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say
In an exclusive interview, the (former) novelist shares his thoughts on Trump, #MeToo and retirement.
Match Book: Around the World in Books
Authors from across the globe unearth their national roots in both fiction and nonfiction.
Books of The Times: Catching Up With Denis Johnson’s Star-Crossed Drifters
“The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” a posthumous story collection, is a sequel of sorts to Johnson’s influential and beloved “Jesus’ Son.”
Front Burner: Cooking, the Benjamin Franklin Way
A new book explores the food passions and larder of a founding father.
Fiction: Bridging the Racial Divide in a Middle School Friendship
In Sam Graham-Felsen’s debut novel, “Green,” the colors that really matter are black and white.
Profile: Brussels, E.U. Capital, Gets a Novel, Both Tart and Empathic
Robert Menasse writes a polyphonic novel of satire and sympathy about Brussels, Europe’s symbolic capital — its bureaucrats, nationalisms and police.
'This Could Hurt' Is A Workplace Saga With Heart
Jillian Medoff has spent years in the corporate world, and she puts that experience to good use in this story of a hard-charging boss whose devoted staff has to cover for her when she starts to slip.
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'Grist Mill Road' Bears Witness To Horror — And Its Aftermath
Christopher J. Yates' new novel begins with an awful crime — and the teenaged boy who stands by and watches as his best friend commits it. But what becomes of everyone involved as the years pass?
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Newsbook: Haiti’s Resilience as Seen Through Literature
Three Haitian writers explore stories of politics, love and violence.
Books News: Stephen King to Receive PEN Literary Service Award
Previous recipients include Stephen Sondheim and J.K. Rowling.
Children’s Books: ‘The War I Finally Won’ Tells One English Girl’s Survival Story
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s follow-up to “The War That Saved My Life” follows its young heroine from life-changing surgery to, finally, a safe home.
The Book Review Podcast: Some Assembly Required
Alexander Langlands discusses “Craeft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts,” and Max Boot talks about “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”
The Shortlist: The (Often Complicated) Lives of Artists
Three new books on Vivian Maier, Renoir and Elaine de Kooning explore the personalities and experiences behind the work.
Essay: The Poet of Light
Richard Wilbur’s capacity for wonder wasn’t always fashionable. But it was always urgently necessary — and still is, perhaps now more than ever.
Nonfiction: The Outlaw Novelist as Literary Critic
J.M. Coetzee reinvents the rules of fiction, but his “Late Essays” about other writers infuse traditional formulas with brilliant psychologizing.
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