Book Review: ‘Help Wanted,’ by Adelle Waldman, and ‘Green Dot,’ by Madeleine Gray
Adelle Waldman’s “Help Wanted” and Madeleine Gray’s “Green Dot” skewer the modern workplace.
Book Review: ‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff
In “Shakespeare’s Sisters,” the Renaissance scholar Ramie Targoff presents an astounding group of Elizabethan women of letters.
Book Review: ‘King Nyx,’ by Kirsten Bakis
Decades after “Lives of the Monster Dogs” comes “King Nyx,” where the wife of a paranormal researcher explores why girls have gone missing from a remote island.
Tommy Orange's 'Wandering Stars' is a powerful follow up to 'There There'
An eloquent indictment of the effects of the massacre, dislocation and forced assimilation of Native Americans, it is also a heartfelt paean to the importance of family and of ancestors' stories.
Book Review: ‘Wandering Stars,’ by Tommy Orange
“Wandering Stars” considers the fallout of colonization and the forced assimilation of Native Americans.
Dishy-yet-earnest, 'Cocktails' revisits the making of 'Virginia Woolf'
Philip Gefter's Cocktails with George and Martha traces the evolution of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? — from Broadway sensation, to Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Book Review: ‘Headshot,’ by Rita Bullwinkel
Rita Bullwinkel’s debut novel, “Headshot,” spotlights eight boxers in a national tournament and the struggles of their inner lives.
Book Review: ‘The Achilles Trap,’ by Steve Coll
In “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll paints the demise of the Iraqi dictator as a tragedy of misperceptions on both sides.
‘All in Her Head’: A Doctor Reckons With Sexism in Women’s Health Care
A new book explores the history of discrimination in women’s health care and how it affects diagnosis and treatment today.
Book Review: ‘A Woman of Pleasure,’ by Kiyoko Murata
“A Woman of Pleasure,” Kiyoko Murata’s first novel to be translated into English, explores the world of sex work in early-20th-century Japan.
‘Water for Elephants’ Brings the Circus to Broadway
Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.
Book Review: ‘Blue Lard,’ by Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Sorokin’s novel “Blue Lard” features a world largely bereft of love or moral concern, but it reminds us of our freedom.
Book Review: ‘American Woman,’ by Katie Rogers
As Katie Rogers writes in “American Woman,” Jill Biden and other recent spouses are still locked in a role unlikely to change until the presidency does.
Book Review: ‘The American Daughters,’ by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s “The American Daughters” tells the story of a powerful resistance coming from inside the house.
Book Review: ‘Burn Book,’ by Kara Swisher
In “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,” the pioneering journalist recounts a life in, and of, Silicon Valley.
Confronting What It Means to Be Black in America Through Faith and Art
For three decades, the iconographer Mark Doox has explored anti-Blackness in America and in the church — work that has culminated in his book, “The N-Word of God.”
Two Sun-Splashed Novels
An overbearing mother; a vanished sister.
Three New Psychological Thrillers
These novels hinge on split-second decisions that change everything.
Book Review: ‘The Darkest White,’ by Eric Blehm
In “The Darkest White,” Eric Blehm chronicles the 2003 disaster that killed the pioneering snowboarder Craig Kelly and six others.
Book Review: ‘The Washington Book,’ by Carlos Lozada
In “The Washington Book,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Carlos Lozada mines a genre known for sanitized prose to revealing effect.
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