Book Review: ‘So What: Poems,’ by Frederick Seidel
Frederick Seidel’s 19th book, “So What,” is filled with politics, disease, luxury and provocation. At almost 90, he’s one of our best contemporary poets.
Book Review: ‘Cue the Sun!’ by Emily Nussbaum
Rather than bemoan pop culture’s most divisive genre, Emily Nussbaum spends time with the creators, the stars and the victims of the decades-long effort to generate buzz.
Eric Hazan, Publisher and Historian on France’s Left, Dies at 87
He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark as a politically engaged, and strolling, historian of Paris.
Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Library Heading to Senegal
Two decades after his death, a collection of over 800 works that the first president of Senegal owned is moving from France to Dakar.
Book Review: ‘Do Something,’ by Guy Trebay
In his beautiful memoir, “Do Something,” Guy Trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre-AIDS Gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.
Book Review: ‘A Gentleman and a Thief,’ by Dean Jobb
In “A Gentleman and a Thief,” Dean Jobb vividly recounts the life and times of the notorious criminal — and tabloid fixture — Arthur Barry.
Book Review: ‘Bear,’ by Julia Phillips
A massive, mysterious grizzly takes on symbolic weight in Julia Phillips’s moody and affecting second novel.
Frederick Crews, Withering Critic of Freud’s Legacy, Dies at 91
A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience.
How a 1933 Book About Jews in Magic Was Rescued From Oblivion
Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust.
Book Review: ‘The New Breadline,’ by Jean-Martin Bauer
“The New Breadline,” by Jean-Martin Bauer, a veteran food aid worker, chronicles a growing problem that should not exist — along with the harmful policies that have exacerbated it.
Book Review: ‘Frostbite,’ by Nicola Twilley
In “Frostbite,” Nicola Twilley travels the cold chain that preserves what we eat and helps it get around the world.
Book Review: ‘Woman of Interest,’ by Tracy O’Neill
Tracy O’Neill’s memoir, “Woman of Interest,” recounts her yearlong quest, which culminates in a trip to Korea.
Tomi Adeyemi’s Books Are Fantasy. What They Taught Her Is Painfully Real.
With her new book, “Children of Anguish and Anarchy,” Adeyemi is wrapping up her best-selling Legacy of Orïsha series. The journey hasn’t been easy.
Have You Heard the One About the School for Stand-Up Comedy?
In “The Material,” Camille Bordas imagines the anxious hotbed where the perils of being a college student and the perils of being funny meet.
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2 Novels Set Over Very Memorable Days
A dinner party at the other woman’s house; the evening before a jail sentence.
How Freida McFadden Conquered the Thriller Genre
After getting her start by self-publishing, Freida McFadden is now the fastest selling thriller writer in the United States.
Book Review: “Practice” by Rosalind Brown
Starring an undergraduate student at Oxford, Rosalind Brown’s debut novel is exquisitely attuned to the thrill and boredom of academic life.
Book Review: ‘Hombrecito,’ by Santiago Jose Sanchez
Santiago Jose Sanchez’ debut novel, “Hombrecito,” follows a young immigrant as he grows up in the United States, struggling to identify with a masculinity he’s never felt and a country he never knew.
Griffin Dunne on His Joyful and Tragic Family Memoir
In “The Friday Afternoon Club,” the actor and director recalls his years growing up around performers, writers and the Hollywood set.
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