Review: “Babysitter,” by Joyce Carol Oates
Her latest novel uses horror and a privileged white protagonist as vehicles for social critique.
Abdulrazak Gurnah Refuses to Be Boxed In: ‘I Represent Me’
Gurnah, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021, has long rejected attempts to categorize him or his work. “The idea that a writer represents, I resist,” he said.
How a Wine Writer Spends Her Sundays
Alice Feiring devotes the day to her mother, her boyfriend, playing folk music, shopping for food and yes, visiting wine bars.
Writers Gather to Read Salman Rushdie and Support Free Speech
Authors including Paul Auster, Gay Talese, Kiran Desai and others reminded the Midtown crowd that without free expression, “literature is nothing but an echo chamber.”
Review: ‘Diary of a Misfit,’ by Casey Parks
Casey Parks’s “Diary of a Misfit” pieces together the elusive history of a Louisiana musician who spent all his life in a community that misgendered him.
New Romance Novels to Read
Lydia San Andres sets “Compromised Into a Scandalous Marriage” in the Edwardian-era Caribbean.
Review: ‘My Government Means to Kill Me,’ by Rasheed Newson
In his debut, “My Government Means to Kill Me,” Rasheed Newson shines a vivid light onto underappreciated aspects of our history through the life of a gay Black teenager.
Robert Caro on ‘Working’
The acclaimed biographer of Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Moses talks about his methods.
What Remains to Be Said About World War II? Plenty, These Authors Suggest
Four new books take another look at a conflict that changed history.
A Trial Put Publishing’s Inner Workings on Display. What Did We Learn?
The book world can be opaque to outsiders. A case offered an unusual glimpse into it, revealing curiosities about the business and details about book deals.
Review: ‘Forever Truffle,’ by Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault
Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault’s sequel to their graphic novel “Louis Undercover” turns the music up a notch.
Norah Vincent, Who Chronicled Passing as a Man, Is Dead at 53
Her best-selling 2006 book about that experience, “Self-Made Man,” made her a media darling. But it cost her psychologically.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
What Was the ‘It Book’ of Summer 75 Years Ago?
Laura Z. Hobson’s “Gentleman’s Agreement” was so popular that Simon & Schuster could barely keep up with demand.
Review: ‘Afterlives,’ by Abdulrazak Gurnah
“Afterlives,” the new novel from the Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, is set in colonial-era German East Africa.
Frances Mayes Admires Travel Writers, With One Big Exception
The novelist and memoirist, whose new book is “A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home,” was disappointed by D.H. Lawrence: “He had a genius for sense of place, but his travel narratives are marred by petty narcissism. Must have been a dreary travel companion.”
Review: ‘The Scent of Burnt Flowers,’ by Blitz Bazawule; ‘Keya Das’s Second Act,’ by Sopan Deb; and ‘Briefly, a Delicious Life,’ by Nell Stevens
Manhunts, posthumous plays and love-struck ghosts in three debut novels.
Poem: Second Attack
The syntax in this poem mimics the confusing and untidy emotional landscape of relationships.
With ‘Ragtime,’ E.L. Doctorow Blends Fact and Fantasy to Deliver a Pointed Critique
In the 1975 novel, as Jonathan Dee writes, the gaps between disparate American lives are closed and the veils that keep some invisible to others are dropped.
In Julian Barnes’s New Novel, a Teacher’s Pet Becomes Obsessed
“Elizabeth Finch” is about an adult student who becomes the inheritor of a beloved teacher’s intellectual work.
Pages
Search this Site
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
