Emily Henry on Writing Best-Sellers Without Tours and TikTok
The author of “Funny Story” churned out five consecutive No. 1 best-sellers without leaving her comfort zone. How did she pull it off?
Gabrielle Zevin Loves Edith Wharton, but Not ‘Ethan Frome’
“It doesn’t make me esteem Wharton less. If anything, I take comfort in it, as a novelist.” Her own smash book “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” is out in paperback.
'The Liquid Eye of a Moon' is a Nigerian coming-of-age story
In Uchenna Awoke’s debut novel, we come to understand that 15-year-old Dimpka’s choices are painfully constricted by the caste system into which he was born.
Book Review: ‘Night Flyer,’ by Tiya Miles
A brisk new biography by the National Book Award-winning historian Tiya Miles aims to restore the iconic freedom fighter to human scale.
Book Review: ‘The Singularity Is Nearer,’ by Ray Kurzweil
In “The Singularity Is Nearer,” the futurist Ray Kurzweil reckons with a world dominated by artificial intelligence (good) and his own mortality (bad).
Book Review: ‘So What: Poems,’ by Frederick Seidel
Frederick Seidel’s 19th book, “So What,” is filled with politics, disease, luxury and provocation. At almost 90, he’s one of our best contemporary poets.
Book Review: ‘Cue the Sun!’ by Emily Nussbaum
Rather than bemoan pop culture’s most divisive genre, Emily Nussbaum spends time with the creators, the stars and the victims of the decades-long effort to generate buzz.
Eric Hazan, Publisher and Historian on France’s Left, Dies at 87
He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark as a politically engaged, and strolling, historian of Paris.
4 crime and suspense novels make for hot summer reading
There’s something about the shadowy moral recesses of crime and suspense fiction that makes those genres especially appealing as temperatures soar. Here are four novels that turn the heat up.
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'Cue the Sun!' is a riveting history of reality TV
Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker critic Emily Nussbaum's book is a near-definitive history of the genre that forever changed American entertainment.
Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Library Heading to Senegal
Two decades after his death, a collection of over 800 works that the first president of Senegal owned is moving from France to Dakar.
Book Review: ‘Do Something,’ by Guy Trebay
In his beautiful memoir, “Do Something,” Guy Trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre-AIDS Gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.
Book Review: ‘A Gentleman and a Thief,’ by Dean Jobb
In “A Gentleman and a Thief,” Dean Jobb vividly recounts the life and times of the notorious criminal — and tabloid fixture — Arthur Barry.
Book Review: ‘Bear,’ by Julia Phillips
A massive, mysterious grizzly takes on symbolic weight in Julia Phillips’s moody and affecting second novel.
Frederick Crews, Withering Critic of Freud’s Legacy, Dies at 91
A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience.
How a 1933 Book About Jews in Magic Was Rescued From Oblivion
Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust.
Book Review: ‘The New Breadline,’ by Jean-Martin Bauer
“The New Breadline,” by Jean-Martin Bauer, a veteran food aid worker, chronicles a growing problem that should not exist — along with the harmful policies that have exacerbated it.
Book Review: ‘Frostbite,’ by Nicola Twilley
In “Frostbite,” Nicola Twilley travels the cold chain that preserves what we eat and helps it get around the world.
Book Review: ‘Woman of Interest,’ by Tracy O’Neill
Tracy O’Neill’s memoir, “Woman of Interest,” recounts her yearlong quest, which culminates in a trip to Korea.
Tomi Adeyemi’s Books Are Fantasy. What They Taught Her Is Painfully Real.
With her new book, “Children of Anguish and Anarchy,” Adeyemi is wrapping up her best-selling Legacy of Orïsha series. The journey hasn’t been easy.
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