Book Review: ‘Soft Core,’ by Brittany Newell
Call her Ruth, or Baby, or Sunday: A San Francisco sex worker’s carefully compartmentalized life starts to unravel in Brittany Newell’s vivid “Soft Core.”
Book Review: ‘Three Days in June,’ by Anne Tyler
In Anne Tyler’s new novel, a socially inept mother faces hurdles in her personal, professional and family lives.
Book Review: ‘A Matter of Complexion,’ by Tess Chakkalakal
A new biography of Charles W. Chesnutt, by Tess Chakkalakal, explains the friendships and tensions he had with his white literary contemporaries.
Book Review: ‘The Age of Choice,’ by Sophia Rosenfeld
In “The Age of Choice,” Sophia Rosenfeld questions whether choosing — what to buy, whom to vote for — is actually worth it.
A ‘Weary but Fabulous’ Poster Girl for Trans Life Opens Up About Aging
In her fifth memoir, “Cleavage,” Jennifer Finney Boylan writes about her 36-year marriage, her adult children and why she keeps telling her story.
Marion Wiesel, Translator, Strategist and Wife of Elie Wiesel, Dies at 94
A fellow survivor, she was a literary and political adviser who helped her husband gain recognition as a singular moral authority on the Holocaust.
Millicent Dillon, Chronicler of Jane and Paul Bowles, Dies at 99
A novelist and short-story writer, she devoted years to a nonfiction project examining of the lives of two eccentric authors who spent decades in Morocco.
Book Review: ‘Memorial Days,’ by Geraldine Brooks
In “Memorial Days,” Geraldine Brooks retreats to an island off Australia hoping to pick up the pieces after the sudden death of her husband.
Book Review: ‘Something Rotten,’ by Andrew Lipstein
“Something Rotten,” Andrew Lipstein’s latest examination of male self-delusion, finds a Brooklyn journalist falling under the sway of a Svengali.
3 Romance Novels We Recommend
What are three popular tropes that romance novels use? Jennifer Harlan, a New York Times books editor, recommends three romance novels that show off those tropes at their best.
Suzanne Massie, ‘Reagan’s Window on the Soviet Union,’ Dies at 94
An author of books on Russia who spoke the language, she had no diplomatic experience but formed an unlikely bond with the president.
2 Novels for People Who Really, Really Love Cats
Rachel Ingalls’s lion god; Haruki Murakami’s cat whisperer.
Book Review: ‘Isola,’ by Allegra Goodman
Allegra Goodman’s novel “Isola” tells the story of a 16th-century Frenchwoman’s extraordinary fight for survival.
Book Review: ‘A Season of Light,’ by Julie Iromuanya
In Julie Iromuanya’s novel “A Season of Light,” a Nigerian American family in Florida experiences aftershocks from their father’s trauma during the Biafran War.
Book Review: ‘Victorian Psycho,’ by Virginia Feito
Virginia Feito’s relentlessly gory novel “Victorian Psycho” announces its narrator’s grisly intentions from the start.
Book Club: Let’s Talk About Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’
This sweeping novel about the life, loves, struggles and triumphs of a queer English Burmese actor is the topic of our January book club discussion.
Book Club: Read ‘Orbital,’ by Samantha Harvey, With the Book Review
In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people living and working on a space station above Earth.
James Carlos Blake, Novelist of Outlaw Life, Is Dead at 81
His savage fiction, set in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, demonstrated his belief that “violence is the most elemental truth of life.”
Book Review: ‘Fearless and Free,’ by Josephine Baker
“Fearless and Free,” recorded between 1926 and 1949, is full of heroism, glamour, righteous anger — and things you wish you could unsee.
Michael Palin on His Diaries and Adventurous Life
In an interview, the Monty Python veteran looks back on his experiences performing in the revered sketch troupe and touring the world as a travel host.
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