Carmen Callil, Founder of the Feminist Press Virago, Dies at 84
She upended the clubby male landscape of British publishing, and expanded the literary canon, reintroducing works by forgotten women authors.
Book Review: ‘The Grimkes,’ by Kerri Greenidge
“The Grimkes,” by the historian Kerri Greenidge, provides a nuanced, revisionist account of an American family best known for a pair of white abolitionist sisters.
Book Review: ‘The Lemon,’ by S.E. Boyd
“The Lemon” is the satirical debut by a team of three authors writing under the pseudonym S.E. Boyd.
Emily Dickinson, at Home in Her ‘Full-Color Life’
The poet’s house museum in Amherst, Mass., gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white.
Jason Zinoman Talks About David Letterman
The Times’s comedy critic discusses his 2017 biography, “Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night,” and the Times Magazine writer Sam Anderson talks about Oklahoma City and his 2018 book, “Boom Town.”
Steve Keene Made 300,000 Paintings in a Home Full of Easels
The artist’s studio and living space, created with his wife, Starling Keene, an architect, houses a one-man assembly line of affordable art — enough to fill a new book.
The Haunted Past
What ghost stories of the formerly enslaved tell us about their lives.
Book Review: ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,’ by Shehan Karunatilaka
“The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida,” which won the 2022 Booker Prize, is an account of wartime Sri Lanka by the ghost of a photojournalist.
Novellas by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Hervé Guibert and Others
Fiction from Hiroko Oyamada, Eduardo Halfon, Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Hervé Guibert.
Book Review: ‘Ted Kennedy,’ by John A. Farrell
John A. Farrell’s “Ted Kennedy” is a sympathetic take on a complex life.
Lucianne Goldberg, Who Helped Expose Clinton Affair, Dies at 87
It was Ms. Goldberg, a literary agent, who suggested that Linda Tripp tape her conversations with Monica Lewinsky. She later fed revelations to the news media.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Finding the New in the Old on the Intellectual Life Beat
Jennifer Schuessler covers the world of ideas for the Culture desk. But what does that mean, exactly?
15 New Books Coming in November
A previously unpublished novel by Katherine Dunn, Matthew Perry’s harrowing account of yearslong addiction, the winner of the Booker Prize — and more.
John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77
His 1971 novel became a movie, with John Houseman giving an award-winning performance as the imperious Professor Kingsfield, and later a television series.
New Horror Fiction
In “Motherthing,” by Ainslie Hogarth, a woman discovers her husband’s mother is even more bothersome dead than alive.
Kevin Wilson By the Book Interview
“I tend to love books where freakishness isn’t presented as something inhuman,” says the author, whose new novel is “Now Is Not the Time to Panic,” “but rather an affirmation of what it means to be a human being trying to survive in a very inhospitable world.”
Prince Harry’s Memoir Is Due in January. How Explosive Will It Be?
The memoir is expected to be a best seller, but after the queen’s death, some royal experts and industry executives say the project has become risky for Harry.
Mike Davis, Who Wrote of Los Angeles and Catastrophe, Dies at 76
In “City of Quartz” and other books, he predicted trouble ahead. Events often proved him right.
Newly Published, From Flamingo Feathers to North Korea
A selection of books published this week.
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