Read Your Way Through Salvador
The writer Itamar Vieira Junior says that to “feel the intensity of life on the streets of Salvador” in Bahia, Brazil, a reader must start with Jorge Amado.
Newly Published, From a Bayou Thriller to Drugs in America
A selection of recently published books.
Stephen M. Silverman, Biographer of Stage and Screen, Is Dead at 71
An entertainment journalist, he persuaded the publicity-shy director David Lean to let him write his story and died before seeing his final book, on Stephen Sondheim, published.
Buyouts and Layoffs Hit Penguin Random House
Departing employees include veteran editors who oversaw best sellers and prizewinning books by Anne Rice, Joan Didion and Amor Towles.
Book Review: ‘Small Worlds,’ by Caleb Azumah Nelson
In Caleb Azumah Nelson’s new novel, “Small Worlds,” a young South Londoner manages pressures from his family and community.
Book Review: ‘Little Poems,’ Edited by Michael Hennessy
A new anthology highlights the charms and drawbacks of very brief verse.
Book Reviews: “The Fourth Turning is Here,” by Neil Howe and “End Times,” By Peter Turchin
In “The Fourth Turning Is Here” and “End Times,” the historian Neil Howe and the social scientist Peter Turchin use generational analysis and Big Data to predict the crises to come.
Book Review: ‘Encounterism,’ by Andy Field
Conceived before the pandemic, Andy Field’s ode to sharing space in person glosses over the ways our everyday habits seem to have changed for good.
Review: ‘Silver Nitrate,’ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel, “Silver Nitrate,” is about friends whose attempt to lift an old curse unleashes something even more terrifying.
What Does it Mean to be Blind? A Writer Chronicles the Loss of His Vision.
In “The Country of the Blind,” Andrew Leland explores the history, the culture and the experiences of blind people
Harry G. Frankfurt, Philosopher With a Surprise Best Seller, Dies at 94
He spent his career exploring will and deceit. Then came a sudden success: a bluntly titled book that found that one strain of dishonesty with a barnyard name was worse than lying.
Book Review: ‘No One Prayed Over Their Graves,’ by Khaled Khalifa
Khaled Khalifa’s new novel follows two friends through disaster and religious tension in early-20th-century Syria.
Book Review: ‘Vanishing Maps,’ by Cristina García
“Vanishing Maps” returns to the del Pino family, now spread across three continents and four generations.
Book Review: ‘The Anniversary,’ by Stephanie Bishop
In her new psychological thriller, “The Anniversary,” Stephanie Bishop follows an emerging writer after a tragedy on a cruise.
Marga Minco, Who Chronicled Jewish Life in Wartime, Dies at 103
Her first and best-known book, “Het Bittere Kruid” (“Bitter Herbs”), described her experiences as a young woman after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.
Carlos Alberto Montaner, Prominent Critic of Castro’s Cuba, Dies at 80
After fleeing the island in 1961, he became one of the leading voices of opposition against the country’s Communist dictatorship.
Summer Birthdays, Casablanca and Boreal Forests
A critic recommends old and new books.
Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I.
Fed up with A.I. companies consuming online content without consent, fan fiction writers, actors, social media companies and news organizations are among those rebelling.
Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I.
Fed up with A.I. companies consuming online content without consent, fan fiction writers, actors, social media companies and news organizations are among those rebelling.
Was She Murdered? Kidnapped? Or Did She Fake Her Own Disappearance?
In Polly Stewart’s novel, “The Good Ones,” a professor investigates what happened when her best friend vanished 20 years earlier.
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