Cormac McCarthy Movies: Stream These 5 Film Adaptations
The Coens and Ridley Scott are among the directors who took big swings at the novelist’s work. The distinctive writer left his mark on the big screen.
‘Beyond This Harbor,’ a Memoir by Rose Styron, Has Poetry, Crusades and Glittering Names
The poet and activist Rose Styron, 95, had to be talked into writing about herself and the many luminaries she has known. “I don’t like looking backward,” she said.
Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89
“All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed books that explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.
Book Review: ‘Revolutionary Spring,’ by Christopher Clark
In “Revolutionary Spring,” the Cambridge historian Christopher Clark argues for the lasting impact of the uprisings that engulfed Europe in 1848.
Book Review: New Fiction From Nicole Cuffy and More
From apartheid South Africa to North Korea to the stage of the New York City Ballet, the characters in these three new books imagine themselves in lives other than their own.
Book Review: ‘Nightbloom,’ by Peace Adzo Medie
In her second novel, “Nightbloom,” Peace Adzo Medie sets a pair of cousins, born on the same day, on separate paths.
Book Review: ‘My Stupid Intentions,’ by Bernardo Zannoni
The narrator of “My Stupid Intentions,” Bernardo Zannoni’s debut novel, is a beech marten in an unforgiving world.
Book Review: ‘A Most Tolerant Little Town,’ by Rachel Louise Martin
Clinton, Tenn., tried to desegregate its high school in 1956, one year before Little Rock. It didn’t go well.
Book Review: ‘Dances,’ by Nicole Cuffy; ‘Innards,’ Magogodi oaMphela Makhene; ‘8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster,’ by Mirinae Lee
From apartheid South Africa to North Korea to the stage of the New York City Ballet, the characters in these three new books imagine themselves in lives other than their own.
Book Review: ‘Young and Restless,’ by Mattie Kahn
In “Young and Restless,” Mattie Kahn returns young women and girls to their rightful role in the history books: as forces for change.
Elizabeth Gilbert, Author of ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ Pulls New Book Set In Russia
Elizabeth Gilbert delayed her new novel indefinitely after an online backlash condemned the book’s publication while Russia is at war with Ukraine.
‘Beyond This Harbor,’ a Memoir by Rose Styron, Has Poetry, Crusades and Glittering Names
The poet and activist Rose Styron, 95, had to be talked into writing about herself and the many luminaries she has known. “I don’t like looking backward,” she said.
Book Review: ‘I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,’ by Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore’s new novel, “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,” braids a historical ghost story with a zombie romance.
Book Review: ‘Girlfriend on Mars,’ by Deborah Willis
In Deborah Willis’s novel “Girlfriend on Mars,” a young woman enters a reality-TV contest to leave the planet, and her marijuana-farming boyfriend, behind.
Book Review: ‘Wannabe,’ by Aisha Harris
In her essay collection “Wannabe,” Aisha Harris argues that Black critics can both appreciate, and demand more from, shifts in popular culture.
WW Norton, a Defiant Book Publisher, Throws a 100th Anniversary Party
Rita Dove, Michael Lewis and Richard Powers were among the authors who took part in a crowded, swinging party at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan.
Owen Gingerich, Astronomer Who Saw God in the Cosmos, Dies at 93
He wrote and lectured widely, often on the theme that religion and science were not incompatible. He also chased down 600 copies of Copernicus’s landmark book.
Book Review: ‘To Name the Bigger Lie,’ by Sarah Viren
This is the question at the heart of “To Name the Bigger Lie,” by Sarah Viren, which tries to make sense of two disturbing episodes from her life in the context of a culture where truth itself is increasingly in dispute.
Book Review: ‘Burn It Down,’ by Maureen Ryan
The journalist Maureen Ryan is mad as hell about what goes on behind the entertainment-biz scenes. Her new book tells tales, and proposes remedies.
Libros y autores de ciencia ficción latinoamericana
Los relatos, en español y portugués, son radicales, rebosantes de tecnochamanes y estética indígena futurista, pero también abrevan de la herencia europea y africana de la región.
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