What the Cult Singer Daniel Johnston Left Behind
In his music, the songwriter cut to the emotional quick. A new book of his drawings, many never seen before, reveals he did the same in thousands of pieces.
Interview: Geena Davis on Her New Childrens’ Book and Her Reading Life
Among her other favorites: “Backlash” and a Charles Laughton biography. The Oscar-winning actress just wrote — and illustrated — her first children’s book.
Book Review: ‘Waste Wars,’ by Alexander Clapp
In “Waste Wars,” Alexander Clapp shows us in depressing detail just what our Big Junk industry is doing to the rest of the world.
David Horowitz, Leftist Turned Trump Defender, Is Dead at 86
Once a Marxist, he came to embrace hard-right positions, including the falsehood that Mr. Trump won in 2020, and to mentor Stephen Miller, later the Trump adviser.
Andrew Gross, Best-Selling Writer of Thrillers, Is Dead at 72
A successful New York apparel executive, he switched gears in midlife and became a novelist, writing numerous best sellers, including five with James Patterson.
New Romance Books That Will Upend Your World
Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.
Book Review: ‘Proof,' by Adam Kucharski
In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion.
Book Review: ‘Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves,’ by Sophie Gilbert
In “Girl on Girl,” Sophie Gilbert makes a searing case that trends from the 1990s and 2000s, online and off, damaged young women in deep, dark ways.
A Novelist Finds Unsettling Echoes in a Nazi-Era Filmmaker’s Compromises
Daniel Kehlmann wrote “The Director” only to realize how loudly the moral quandaries faced by G.W. Pabst would resonate today.
24 New Books to Read in May: Stephen King, Ocean Vuong, Alison Bechdel and more
Novels by Stephen King and Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow’s latest blockbuster biography, a new graphic novel by Alison Bechdel and more.
New Romance Novels
Our columnist on the month’s best new releases.
New Historical Fiction From Emma Donoghue, Chris Bohjalian and More
Our critic on the month’s best releases.
Jane Gardam: An Appreciation
The British author, best known for her “Old Filth” trilogy, never paid much attention to literary fashion, and her 22 novels range widely in genre, tone and style.
Jane Gardam Dead: ‘Old Filth’ Author Was 96
“The Queen of the Tambourine,” “Old Filth” and other fiction vividly captured both working-class and aristocratic Britain in the last years of the colonial era.
Book Review: ‘Ginseng Roots,’ by Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson’s new book revisits his upbringing on a farm in rural Wisconsin, and the farmers — both American-born and not — who made up his community.
Book Review: ‘Medicine River’ by Mary Annette Pember
In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember examines a national shame — and the trauma it wrought in her own family.
Book Review: ‘The Fate of the Day,’ by Rick Atkinson
The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s trilogy about the war animates an entire world — from battlefields and commanders to sounds and smells.
Book Review: ‘Strangers in the Land,’ by Michael Luo
In “Strangers in the Land,” Michael Luo tells the story of the Chinese workers lured to the United States and expelled when 19th-century politicians turned against them.
Peter Lovesey Dead: Detective Novelist Was 88
He wrote a series of witty police procedurals set in Victorian England and then turned to the present, introducing a cantankerous and technology-averse detective.
Book Review: ‘I Regret Almost Everything,’ by Keith McNally
Keith McNally tracks his staggering successes — and failures — in his new memoir, “I Regret Almost Everything.”
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