Essay: How to Live With Critics (Whether You’re an Artist or the President)
“Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic,” the president said recently. Artists might well feel a sneaking sympathy with this notion.
Tracy K. Smith Is the New Poet Laureate
Ms. Smith, 45, says she hopes to be a poetry evangelist of sorts, going to parts of the United States “where literary festivals don’t always go.”
Books of The Times: Sherman Alexie’s Complicated Grief for His Mother
In his memoir, “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” Alexie explores grief, poverty and his childhood on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
'So Much Blue' Is Percival Everett's Best Yet
By turns funny, shocking and heartbreaking, Everett's new novel follows a painter who's deeply ambivalent about his apparently idyllic life and digs into the moments in his past that shaped him.
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Prog Rock Gets Some Respect In 'The Show That Never Ends'
David Weigel is primarily a political reporter, but in The Show that Never Ends he spins his love of prog rock into a detailed, affectionate history of a genre that's never completely gone away.
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Critic’s Take: The Modern Trans Memoir Comes of Age
Two new memoirs, by Janet Mock and Caitlyn Jenner, reveal how trans writing about identity is evolving.
A Literary Tour of Italy’s Libraries
Italy’s libraries offer a convergence of architecture, literature and history. These books take you inside their walls.
Fiction: A High-Stakes New York City Thriller Where Noir and Nostalgia Meet
“You Belong to Me,” Colin Harrison’s first thriller in eight years, features a noirish love triangle and an obsessive collector of maps.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: I Need Short but Great Books for My Commute
Wherein the bookish commuter’s lament — “The most I can read is for 30 minutes and that’s typically a train or bus ride” — is solved.
Sherman Alexie and the Tricky Art of Memoir
In a new book inspired by his mother’s death, “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” Mr. Alexie plays with the complexities of autobiography.
Nonfiction: How the Dark Web’s Dread Pirate Roberts Went Down
In Nick Bilton’s “American Kingpin,” the former boy scout who started the Silk Road is brought down by federal agents in a dizzying manhunt.
Fiction: In ‘Camino Island,’ John Grisham Takes a Vacation From Writing John Grisham Novels
Stolen F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts, colorful booksellers and a sleepy resort town make for a leisurely, lawyerless John Grisham jaunt.
'Last Kid Left' Is A Summer Read For People Who Hate The Light
Rosecrans Baldwin's new novel probably shouldn't have come out in summer: It's got the trappings of a beach read — a shore town, tourists, a murder — but it strays into some very dark territory.
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Beach Reads You Need: Four Sandy Summer Romances
Our monthly romance roundup rolls on with four beach-appropriate reads for June, from the supernatural to the astronomical to an old-fashioned tale of family lost and found when you least expect it.
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'The Essex Serpent' Spreads Its Wings
Sarah Perry's historical novel is gloriously alive, teeming with bugs, moss and marsh, unconventional spirits and a darker undercurrent of fear about a legendary monster haunting the Essex coast.
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Newsbook: 3 Books on the Evolution of the Gay Rights Movement
As gay pride month kicks into gear, here are three books on the history of the gay rights movement.
Open Book: The Luckiest Man on Earth
In “The Pride of the Yankees,” Richard Sandomir tells the story behind what he calls “the first great sports film.”
The Book Review Podcast: Al Franken on Life in the Senate
Franken discusses his new political memoir; Thomas E. Ricks talks about “Churchill and Orwell”; and Dav Pilkey on the movie adaptation of “Captain Underpants” and more.
A Return to Middle-Earth, 44 Years After Tolkien’s Death
In “Beren and Luthien,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s son traces the romance between a human and an elf through his father’s notes and drafts and epic poems.
Nonfiction: A Poet’s Loving Take on Her Unorthodox Catholic Family
In her memoir “Priestdaddy,” the poet Patricia Lockwood writes about growing up the daughter of an irrepressible Catholic priest.
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