In the Corporate World, Woke Is the Rage but Greed Is Still King
Three new books chronicle businesses where executive self-enrichment at the expense of workers — and sometimes the law — prevails.
Interview: Kara Walker on Her Collaboration With Jamaica Kincaid
Audiobooks have let the artist “stay invested in stories while working with my hands.” Her new project: illustrating Jamaica Kincaid’s “An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children.”
A Leading Free Expression Group Is Roiled by Dissent Over Gaza
As it cancels events amid criticism of its response to the Israel-Hamas war, PEN America faces questions about when an organization devoted to free speech for all should take sides.
Two new novels investigate what makes magic, what is real and imagined
Both of these novels, Pages of Mourning and The Cemetery of Untold Stories, from an emerging writer and a long-celebrated one, respectively, walk an open road of remembering love, grief, and fate.
Book Review: ‘Massacre in the Clouds,’ by Kim A. Wagner
In a new book, the historian Kim A. Wagner investigates the slaughter by U.S. troops of nearly 1,000 people in the Philippines in 1906 — an atrocity long overlooked in this country.
Book Review: ‘Henry Henry,’ by Allen Bratton
Allen Bratton’s novel transforms the rise of Henry V into a contemporary story about a brash gay man grappling with abuse and guilt.
Book Review: ‘Our Kindred Creatures,’ by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement.
Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate and Master of the Short Story, Dies at 92
Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
Alice Munro: An Appraisal
The Nobel Prize-winning author specialized in exacting short stories that were novelistic in scope, spanning decades with intimacy and precision.
What are 'the kids' thinking these days? Honor Levy aims to tell in 'My First Book'
Social media discourse and the inevitable backlash aside, the 26-year-old writer's first book is an amusing, if uneven, take on growing up white, privileged, and Gen Z.
Book Review: ‘The Race to the Future,’ by Kassia St. Clair
In “The Race to the Future,” Kassia St. Clair chronicles the 8,000-mile caper that helped change the landscape forever.
Finding Beauty in the Chaos, and God in Cherry Blossoms
Tracing his path from homelessness to proud parenthood, the writer Carvell Wallace recounts a lifetime of joy and pain in his intimate memoir.
Book Review: ‘Chasing Hope,’ by Nicholas D. Kristof
In “Chasing Hope,” the veteran Times journalist remembers the highs and lows of his storied career.
Book Review: ‘Morning After the Revolution,’ by Nellie Bowles
In “Morning After the Revolution,” an attack on progressive activism, the journalist Nellie Bowles relies more on sarcasm than argument or ideas.
Book Review: ‘Skies of Thunder,’ by Caroline Alexander
In the riveting “Skies of Thunder,” Caroline Alexander considers what it took to get supplies to Allied ground troops in China.
Claire Messud's sweeping novel borrows from her own 'Strange Eventful History'
Messud draws from her grandfather's handwritten memoir as she tells a cosmopolitan, multigenerational story about a family forced to move from Algeria to Europe to South and North America.
My Octopus Teacher's Craig Foster dives into the ocean again in 'Amphibious Soul'
Nature's healing power is an immensely personal focus for Foster. He made his film after being burned out from long, grinding hours at work. After the release of the film, he suffered from insomnia.
Book Review: ‘Late Admissions,’ by Glenn C. Loury
The professor and social commentator Glenn Loury opens up about his vices in a candid new memoir.
Are Plants Intelligent? If So, What Does That Mean for Your Salad?
A new book, “The Light Eaters,” looks at how plants sense the world and the agency they have in their own lives.
Book Review: ‘Challenger,’ by Adam Higginbotham
As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error.
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