Book Review: Children’s Books About Eyesight, Hearing and Literacy Challenges
What children who face eyesight, hearing and literacy challenges can decipher may be limited, but what they appreciate and celebrate knows no bounds.
Book Review: ‘The Bars Are Ours,’ by Lucas Hilderbrand
In “The Bars Are Ours,” Lucas Hilderbrand offers a transcontinental look at a half-century of queer nightlife in America.
Book Reviews: ‘Julian,’ by Philip Freeman; ‘Touch the Future,’ by John Lee Clark; and ‘Son of the Old West,’ by Nathan Ward
New books detail the lives of a politicking Roman emperor, people who communicate through touch and a man who helped make the American West into legend.
Audiobook Review: ‘Worthy,’ by Jada Pinkett Smith
In “Worthy,” the actor recalls her gritty Baltimore upbringing, her early stardom, her marriage and her mental health.
Charles Peters, Neoliberal Founder of The Washington Monthly, Dies at 96
His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades and added an important perspective for Washington’s cognoscenti.
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Who Looked at History From the Bottom Up, Dies at 94
He led a movement that rejected historiography’s traditional emphasis on great events and leaders in favor of mining the “mental universe” of peasants, merchants and clergymen.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Janet Evanovich Can Laugh at Her Own Mistakes
As her Stephanie Plum series hits a milestone with “Dirty Thirty,”, the prolific octogenarian looks back on a few bloopers.
Interview: Mark Kurlansky
“There are too many books celebrating it,” says the author, whose new book is “The Core of an Onion.”
Bob Contant, Dedicated Bohemian Bookseller, Dies at 80
A founder of the St. Mark’s Bookshop in the East Village, he prided himself on stocking titles that were not “too popular” and stayed in business for four decades.
Overlooked No More: Elena Zelayeta, Emissary for Mexican Cooking
Beginning the 1930s in San Francisco, she transformed the image of her native Mexican cuisine in the United States with a restaurant and popular cookbooks, all while overcoming a loss of sight.
Book Review: ‘Longstreet,’ by Elizabeth R. Varon
In “Longstreet,” Elizabeth R. Varon dissects the life and legacy of a Confederate general who became a devoted supporter of Reconstruction.
Book Review: ‘Flight of the WASP,’ by Michael Gross
In “Flight of the WASP,” the inveterate dirt-digger Michael Gross gives America’s elite families the white-glove treatment.
Book Review: ‘The World in a Wineglass,’ by Ray Isle
Ray Isle’s “The World in a Wineglass” is a broad survey of vintners with a focus on sustainability and organic methods.
Book Review: ‘November 1942,’ by Peter Englund
In “November 1942,” Peter Englund pieces together a month in the Second World War with the diaries and memoirs of the people who survived it.
Herbert Gold, Postwar Novelist of Love and Marriage, Dies at 99
He emerged in the 1950s as a promising young writer exploring the emotional lives of ordinary men and women and the complexities of Jewish identity in America.
Writers and Musicians on the Influence of ‘Rubyfruit Jungle’
Kristen Arnett, k.d. lang, Myriam Gurba and 10 more on Rita Mae Brown’s breakthrough novel about lesbian identity, published 50 years ago this fall.
Book Review: ‘Critical Hits,’ edited by J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado
In the anthology “Critical Hits,” gamers like Hanif Abdurraqib, Alexander Chee and Larissa Pham explain what the medium means to them.
Book Review: ‘Critical Hits,’ edited by J. Robert Lennon and Carmen Maria Machado
In the anthology “Critical Hits,” gamers like Hanif Abdurraqib, Alexander Chee and Larissa Pham explain what the medium means to them.
Mick Herron’s Surprise Career as a Blockbuster Spy Novelist
The author of the “Slow Horses” series says he relates more with failures. With millions of books sold and the third season of the series airing next month, he may have to wrap his head around success.
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