Book Review: ‘The Future Future,’ by Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell’s “The Future Future” follows a 19-year-old socialite through a prerevolutionary Paris that looks suspiciously like our present day.
Book Review: ‘I Love Russia,’ by Elena Kostyuchenko
“I Love Russia,” a collection of Elena Kostyuchenko’s reporting over the past 15 years, captures the lives of ordinary, often struggling, people in far-flung parts of the country.
Book Review: ‘House Gone Quiet,’ by Kelsey Norris; ‘The World Wasn’t Ready for You,’ by Justin C. Key
Kelsey Norris’s “House Gone Quiet” and Justin C. Key’s “The World Wasn’t Ready for You” share an interest in the ways that being bound shapes our understanding of freedom.
Book Review: ‘Tremor,’ by Teju Cole
His new novel, “Tremor,” uses images and artifacts to look deeply into trauma, identity and consolation.
Book Review: ‘The Lumumba Plot,’ by Stuart A. Reid
In “The Lumumba Plot,” the Foreign Affairs editor Stuart A. Reid asks whether the Central Intelligence Agency was involved in the death of one of Africa’s most famous post-colonial politicians.
Book Review: ‘Invitation to a Banquet,’ by Fuchsia Dunlop
Fuchsia Dunlop’s “Invitation to a Banquet” is a cultural investigation of an impossibly broad and often misunderstood cuisine.
Book Review: ‘Dartmouth Park,’ by Rupert Thomson
In Rupert Thomson’s new novel, “Dartmouth Park,” the sound of a mundane beep triggers in one man what may be either a revelatory metaphysical journey or a bout of male existential angst.
Robert Sapolsky Doesn’t Believe in Free Will. (But Feel Free to Disagree.)
Shedding the concept “completely strikes at our sense of identity and autonomy,” the Stanford biologist and neurologist argues. It might also be liberating.
Teju Cole Talks About His New Novel, “Tremor”
“Tremor,” his first novel in over a decade, is set in Massachusetts and Lagos, and came from a desire to capture the last moments of a pre-Covid world.
Book Review: ‘I Must Be Dreaming,’ by Roz Chast
In “I Must Be Dreaming,” the cartoonist serves up nutty nocturnal admissions, considers theories of sleep and, yes, imagines losing her teeth.
Book Review: ‘Prequel,’ by Rachel Maddow, and ‘Democracy Awakening,’ by Heather Cox Richardson
Rachel Maddow’s “Prequel” and Heather Cox Richardson’s “Democracy Awakening” follow plots against America hatched by homegrown autocrats.
Vladimir Nabokov’s Best Books: A Guide
Clever and dexterous, his writing delights in puzzles, puns and lepidoptera. Here’s where to start. (There’s so much more than “Lolita.”)
Vladimir Nabokov’s Best Books: A Guide
Clever and dexterous, his writing delights in puzzles, puns and lepidoptera. Here’s where to start. (There’s so much more than “Lolita.”)
Good Mom, Bad Mom, Possessed by Evil Mom
In Jennifer McMahon’s new novel, “My Darling Girl,” a woman must protect her family from a terrible darkness lurking in her abusive mother.
Ghost Stories!
A collection of spooky short fiction by Edith Wharton and a historical nonfiction narrative about a woman who claimed to be haunted.
Jada Pinkett Smith on Will Smith, Chris Rock and Her New Book, ‘Worthy’
In her new memoir, “Worthy,” she answers big questions, poses others to readers and sets the record straight on her marriage to Will Smith.
Writing the Biography of America’s First Black Woman Novelist
In “The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts,” Gregg Hecimovich pieces together the story of a woman who fled slavery, and whose manuscript was lost for more than 150 years.
Book Review: ‘Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind,’ by Molly McGhee
In Molly McGhee’s debut, “Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind,” debt-laden citizens are recruited to “audit” others’ dreams — all in the name of productivity.
Book Review: ‘My Work’ by Olga Ravn
In her vivid second novel, “My Work,” Olga Ravn evokes the disorientation of new parenthood.
Louise Glück, 1943-2023: 5 Great Poems to Read
The American writer, who won a Nobel Prize in 2020, wrote with cool clarity and often puckish wit.
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