Will Self Discusses ‘Elaine’
In “Elaine,” Will Self conjures a 1950s housewife who bears a striking resemblance to the woman who raised him.
Book Review: ‘She-Wolves,’ by Paulina Bren
In “She-Wolves,” the historian Paulina Bren recounts the uphill — and ongoing — battle of women to break into the finance industry.
Book Review: ‘Rejection,’ by Tony Tulathimutte
Tony Tulathimutte’s new stories center on the young, alienated, unloved people you can’t stop watching.
Years After He Smeared Anita Hill, David Brock Has a New Book, ‘Stench,’ Denouncing Clarence Thomas
As a young conservative, David Brock smeared Hill, who accused the Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past.
Buried for Years in an Archive, a Novel by a Master of Horror Is Out
“Pay the Piper,” a manuscript by George A. Romero, the director of classics like “Night of the Living Dead,” was incomplete. Daniel Kraus, who studied Romero’s oeuvre, gave it a fitting finish.
How Stephen Colbert’s Family Cookbook Came to Be
Stephen Colbert and Evie McGee Colbert once had a falling out over a spoon, but their new cookbook has them in the kitchen, with love, laughter, and the right utensils.
Book Review: ‘Hampton Heights,’ by Dan Kois
In the journalist Dan Kois’s new book, “Hampton Heights,” a group of middle-school boys discover magic and frights in an unassuming Milwaukee enclave.
Book Review: ‘Question 7,’ by Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan’s new book progresses like a nuclear chain reaction, moving from personal narrative to world events.
Book Review: ‘Kingmaker,’ by Sonia Purnell
Sonia Purnell’s biography of Pamela Harriman argues that the Democratic stalwart and former ambassador was more than the men she cultivated.
Book Review: ‘Frighten the Horses,’ by Oliver Radclyffe
In his memoir “Frighten the Horses,” Oliver Radclyffe recalls his gradual awakening to the sexuality and gender identity he spent 40 years denying.
Interview: Robert Caro on ‘The Power Broker’
The Pulitzer-winning biographer revisits his seminal 1974 life of the New York City bureaucrat Robert Moses.
An Acerbic Young Writer Takes Aim at the Identity Era
Tony Tulathimutte is a master comedian whose original and highly disturbing new book skewers liberal pieties.
Book Review: ‘Dear Dickhead,’ by Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes confronts sexual politics in an epistolary novel with a stubbornly idealistic streak.
Book Review: ‘Amazing Grapes,’ by Jules Feiffer
With “Amazing Grapes,” the legendary cartoonist has composed a wondrous hymn to what’s lost and found.
Book Review: ‘A Sunny Place for Shady People,’ by Mariana Enriquez
The Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez indicts our worst offenses in 12 haunting new stories.
Pedro Almodóvar, Master of Mystifying Films, Wrote a Book He Can’t Classify
In “The Last Dream,” the Spanish director offers insights into his complicated relationship with creativity and mortality.
Book Review: ‘Paris in Ruins,’ by Sebastian Smee
Sebastian Smee’s “Paris in Ruins” follows the lives and careers of Manet, Degas and Berthe Morisot during the Franco-Prussian fiasco.
Mark Jury, Whose Stark Photography Captured the Vietnam War, Dies at 80
He produced an early photo book about what he called the first “rock ’n’ roll war,” documented his grandfather’s dementia and became a filmmaker.
7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Robert Caro Reflects on ‘The Power Broker’ and Its Legacy at 50
Caro’s book on Robert Moses, a city planner who reshaped New York, is also a reflection on “the dangers of unchecked power,” and remains more resonant and relevant than ever.
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