Two new books offer harsh assessments of private equity firms that specializes in buying up companies only to saddle them with debt and squeeze them for profits.
The protagonist of K. Patrick’s “Mrs. S,” a boarding school worker questioning her gender expression, falls into a torrid affair with the headmaster’s wife.
In Haley Jakobson’s compassionate debut novel, “Old Enough,” a college sophomore must navigate her first steps into young adulthood while unpacking the trauma of past abuse.
Ahead of next year’s 400th anniversary of the Dutch colony of New Netherland, the historian and author of “The Island at the Center of the World” offers a walking tour of often-overlooked Native American and Black sites.
The theatrical performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, opening this month at the Park Central Hotel, is the latest in a very long, heavily sequined line of “Gatsby” adaptations.
In “Beyond the Shores,” the historian Tamara J. Walker explores the lives of African Americans drawn to other countries by pleasure, employment and war.
In addition to her prizewinning writing, she was known for editing the correspondence between the poet Robert Lowell and the writer Elizabeth Hardwick.
In “The Sullivanians,” Alexander Stille recalls the heyday of an experiment in communal living that blurred the boundaries between therapists, patients and lovers.
In a literary culture obsessed with confessionals, her brilliant short stories — and, now, a new novel — have always been about art, not autobiography.
In a literary culture obsessed with confessionals, her brilliant short stories — and, now, a new novel — have always been about art, not autobiography.
