What Do Authors Want Us to Know About Themselves? It Depends.
Some writers are more private than others — and rightfully so. But we can still jazz up the most boring part of most books: the author bio.
Alan Cumming Would Like to Play the Title Character in ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’
“I would play her as a man, not in drag or anything.”
The Inexorable Rise of Angela Merkel
Kati Marton’s “The Chancellor” describes how a smart and talented woman overcame numerous obstacles on her way to becoming the leader of Germany.
What Happened After the Most Deadly Antisemitic Attack in American History?
In Mark Oppenheimer’s “Squirrel Hill,” he chronicles the aftermath of the Tree of Life shooting and how it affected the tightly knit Pittsburgh Jewish community.
Storms Crash Through These Two Novels, Leaving Humans in Their Wake
“Lean Fall Stand,” a new book by Jon McGregor, and “Storm,” a new edition of a 1941 book by George R. Stewart, examine the unpredictable power of extreme weather events.
Book Review: ‘Churchill’s Shadow,’ by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
“Churchill’s Shadow,” by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, may be the best single-volume indictment of Churchill yet written.
Book Review: ‘Time for Socialism,’ by Thomas Piketty
Piketty’s “Time for Socialism” is a collection of recent pieces criticizing the maldistribution of wealth in the West and tracing his own political evolution.
Louise Glück’s Stark New Book Affirms Her Icy Precision
Consisting of just 15 poems, “Winter Recipes From the Collective” extends the Nobel laureate’s interest in silence and the void, Elisa Gabbert writes in her latest column.
Henry Kissinger and the Puzzle of the Middle East
Martin Indyk’s “Master of the Game” offers a detailed account of Kissinger’s diplomacy at the time of the 1973 war.
Suffering From Confounding Symptoms, a Patient Treats Himself
In “The Deep Places,” Ross Douthat chronicles the illness that continued to plague him no matter what he threw at it.
A Debut Novel of a Life in the Arctic, Beyond History’s Reach
In “The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven,” by Nathaniel Ian Miller, a young man swaps the daily grind for the unpeopled expanses of the Far North.
John McWhorter Argues That Antiracism Has Become a Religion of the Left
McWhorter’s “Woke Racism” is a call for Americans to rethink the debates over racism and white supremacy.
8 New Horror Novels to Read This Season
Here are eight knuckle-biting, nerve-ripping new tales, just in time for Halloween.
A Virgin Homicide as Told by the Girls She Left Behind
Kwon Yeo-sun’s “Lemon” revisits an 18-year-old’s murder from three biased perspectives.
History and Its Harsh Lessons Give These Graphic Novels Their Material
In Hillary Chute’s Graphic Content column, she looks at Nora Krug’s graphic adaptation of Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” and Dash Shaw’s “Discipline.”
How Literature by Black Authors Shaped One Scholar’s Life
In “Read Until You Understand,” Farah Jasmine Griffin explores how books have served as instruction manuals to guide her through difficulty and triumph.
Alan Cumming Took Ecstasy to Quell His Nerves on Tony Night, ‘and It Worked’
And other revelations from the actor’s second memoir, “Baggage.”
One Factory and the Bigger Story It Tells
Farah Stockman talks about “American Made,” and Benjamín Labatut discusses “When We Cease to Understand the World.”
For Tiphanie Yanique, Black Love Comes With Baggage
In “Monster in the Middle,” parents beget children who inherit their pain, their care and their madness.
When William Faulkner and Langston Hughes Wrote Children’s Books
You might think that celebrated adult authors writing for kids is a new trend. It isn’t.
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