Hisham Matar Spent ‘A Month in Siena’ Staring at Art
The new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is part travelogue and part art criticism, a reflection on the power of art to affect us deeply.
Shut Up and Drink Your Champagne: The Impossible Life of the Impossible Elaine Stritch
In “Still Here,” a biography by Alexandra Jacobs, Stritch comes across as a matchless talent and a hopeless neurotic.
Demi Moore, Julie Andrews and Carly Simon Tell All
These three memoirs were all written by famous women — but that’s about all they have in common.
An Inventor’s Life That Was Incandescent Any Way You Look at It
In a new biography of Thomas Edison, Edmund Morris tells the story in reverse — starting at the end and going backward to his birth.
Tim O’Brien, a Veteran of War and Fatherhood, Opens Up to His Sons
In “Dad’s Maybe Book,” based on letters to his children over the years, the author reflects on life, death and literature.
Rescuing Native Americans From the Imaginative Prison of the Past
Finally, there is a critical mass of children’s picture books about Indigenous people living vibrant, diverse, contemporary lives.
As a Father Lies Dying, His Family Reckons With Their Troubled Legacy
Jami Attenberg’s new novel, “All This Could Be Yours,” explores the lasting consequences of bad behavior.
A Romantic Comedy So Dark It Makes You Cry
The narrator of Lara Vapnyar’s “Divide Me by Zero” uses her dying mother’s unfinished math project to cope with two lovers, a husband and a stalled novel.
The First Arabic Novel to Win the International Booker Prize
Jokha Alharthi’s inventive multigenerational tale, “Celestial Bodies,” is also the first novel by an Omani woman to be translated into English.
She Made Thinking Exciting: The Life and Work of Susan Sontag
“Sontag,” Benjamin Moser’s new biography, is a skilled, lively book that works hard to capture a severely complex person.
For Some Horror Writers, Nothing Is Scarier Than a Changing Planet
While literary fiction often sidesteps the climate crisis, eco-horror is filling the breach.
It’s Fall, So the Best-Seller Lists Are Brimming With New Books
One of them, Jason Reynolds’s middle-grade novel “Look Both Ways,” is a National Book Award finalist.
What’s in the Murder Book? Marilyn Stasio Wants to Know.
Her latest Crime column features a cold case for Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch and whodunits from Susan Isaacs, Charles Todd and Deborah Crombie.
Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’
Williams talks about his new memoir, “Self-Portrait in Black and White,” and Stephen Kinzer discusses “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.”
When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr.
“The Fire Is Upon Us,” by Nicholas Buccola, is at once a biography of two leading American intellectuals and an in-depth look at their legendary 1965 debate over civil rights.
Dark Books for Dark Times
Read these spine-tingling works of science fiction and fantasy at your own risk.
Work in Progress
Ever wonder what other people are scribbling or typing feverishly? An artist takes a peek.
New in Paperback: ‘Bowlaway’ and ‘Heart’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Echoes of Borges in a Novel of War-Torn Venezuela
Karina Sainz Borgo’s “It Would Be Night in Caracas” traces one woman’s grief against a backdrop of political chaos.
Looking Back at Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Circle of Reason’
Ghosh’s 1986 debut tells the story of a young weaver accused of being a terrorist. Anthony Burgess, the author of “A Clockwork Orange,” reviewed it for us.
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