Book Reviews: ‘The Good Virus,’ by Tom Ireland, and ‘The Master Builder,’ by Alfonso Martinez Arias
Two new books bring attention to old discoveries with the potential to cure stubborn ailments and reveal the secrets of biology.
Book Review: ‘The Apology,’ by Jimin Han; ‘Breaking and Entering,’ by Don Gillmor; ‘In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel,’ by Genevieve Plunkett
Across Korea and Canada and the Midwest, these lonely protagonists guide us through ennui, delusion and even the afterlife.
Finding Her Voice Was Just a Rowboat Journey Away
Harakka Island, a creative community off the coast of Helsinki, Finland, helped the illustrator Marika Maijala come into her own as an artist. “I don’t know where my art ends and my life begins. The border is fleeting.”
Book Review: ‘Cosmic Scholar,’ by John Szwed
Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones.
Werner Herzog Is the Voice of A.I. Poetry
When asked to narrate an audiobook of machine-generated verse, Mr. Herzog readily agreed. “I wasn’t the best choice,” he said. “I was the only choice.”
Nechama Tec, Polish Holocaust Survivor and Scholar, Dies at 92
She wrote about heroic Jewish resisters in her book “Defiance,” which was later made into a film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber.
The Case of the Internet Archive vs. Book Publishers
In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued. Owning a book means something different now.
Book Review: ‘The Romantic,’ by William Boyd
William Boyd’s new book follows one man from childhood to death, and the globe-spanning adventures in between.
Book Review: ‘The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life,’ by Clare Carlisle
In a new book, Clare Carlisle considers the powerful partnership between the Victorian novelist and the de facto husband who tended her career.
Keith Waldrop, Professor and Award-Winning Poet, Dies at 90
He won the National Book Award for poetry in 2009, having first been nominated 40 years earlier. He taught at Brown University for four decades.
Purging Books, Making Art and Ruling Chicago
An editor recommends two escapist biographies.
Fassbinder’s World: A Refuge for Outcasts
Rethinking the German filmmaker’s vast body of work while reading a new book about him.
Book Review: ‘The Bee Sting,’ by Paul Murray
In Paul Murray’s new novel, “The Bee Sting,” an Irish family faces economic ruin after the 2008 financial crash. And that’s just the start of their troubles.
Richard J. Whalen, Biographer of Joseph P. Kennedy, Dies at 87
His book about the patriarch of the Kennedy political dynasty was a best seller. He later worked, briefly and not happily, for Richard M. Nixon.
Swallowed by a Whale, and Other August Books
Sarah Lyall discusses the thriller “Whalefall,” by Daniel Kraus, and Joumana Khatib rounds up the month’s other big books.
How ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’ Reimagined a BookTok Sensation
The filmmakers didn’t want to disappoint fans of Casey McQuiston’s novel about the romance between a U.S. president’s son and a British prince.
When art and money meet
Encouragement, profit or exploitation?
New Crime and Mystery Novels
In Halley Sutton’s “The Hurricane Blonde,” a young woman struggles with the decades-old, still unsolved murder of her sister.
New Crime and Mystery Novels
In Halley Sutton’s “The Hurricane Blonde,” a young woman struggles with the decades-old, still unsolved murder of her sister.
An Eccentric Victorian, His Book and the Giant Pink Pastry of a House He Inspired
In “The Octagon House,” published in 1848, Orson Squire Fowler wondered why anyone would build a four-sided home when they could have an eight-sided one.
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