Book Review: ‘Shakespeare’s Sisters’ by Ramie Targoff
In “Shakespeare’s Sisters,” the Renaissance scholar Ramie Targoff presents an astounding group of Elizabethan women of letters.
Book Review: ‘King Nyx,’ by Kirsten Bakis
Decades after “Lives of the Monster Dogs” comes “King Nyx,” where the wife of a paranormal researcher explores why girls have gone missing from a remote island.
Book Review: ‘Wandering Stars,’ by Tommy Orange
“Wandering Stars” considers the fallout of colonization and the forced assimilation of Native Americans.
Book Review: ‘Headshot,’ by Rita Bullwinkel
Rita Bullwinkel’s debut novel, “Headshot,” spotlights eight boxers in a national tournament and the struggles of their inner lives.
Book Review: ‘The Achilles Trap,’ by Steve Coll
In “The Achilles Trap,” Steve Coll paints the demise of the Iraqi dictator as a tragedy of misperceptions on both sides.
‘All in Her Head’: A Doctor Reckons With Sexism in Women’s Health Care
A new book explores the history of discrimination in women’s health care and how it affects diagnosis and treatment today.
Book Review: ‘A Woman of Pleasure,’ by Kiyoko Murata
“A Woman of Pleasure,” Kiyoko Murata’s first novel to be translated into English, explores the world of sex work in early-20th-century Japan.
‘Water for Elephants’ Brings the Circus to Broadway
Based on the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, the musical follows a young man who hops a train and falls in with a ragtag, traveling group of entertainers.
Book Review: ‘Blue Lard,’ by Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Sorokin’s novel “Blue Lard” features a world largely bereft of love or moral concern, but it reminds us of our freedom.
Book Review: ‘American Woman,’ by Katie Rogers
As Katie Rogers writes in “American Woman,” Jill Biden and other recent spouses are still locked in a role unlikely to change until the presidency does.
Book Review: ‘The American Daughters,’ by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s “The American Daughters” tells the story of a powerful resistance coming from inside the house.
Book Review: ‘Burn Book,’ by Kara Swisher
In “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,” the pioneering journalist recounts a life in, and of, Silicon Valley.
Confronting What It Means to Be Black in America Through Faith and Art
For three decades, the iconographer Mark Doox has explored anti-Blackness in America and in the church — work that has culminated in his book, “The N-Word of God.”
Two Sun-Splashed Novels
An overbearing mother; a vanished sister.
Three New Psychological Thrillers
These novels hinge on split-second decisions that change everything.
Book Review: ‘The Darkest White,’ by Eric Blehm
In “The Darkest White,” Eric Blehm chronicles the 2003 disaster that killed the pioneering snowboarder Craig Kelly and six others.
Book Review: ‘The Washington Book,’ by Carlos Lozada
In “The Washington Book,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Carlos Lozada mines a genre known for sanitized prose to revealing effect.
Book Review: ‘In Ascension,’ by Martin MacInnes
A brooding biologist seeks transcendence in Martin MacInnes’s richly atmospheric, patiently unfurling novel “In Ascension.”
Alfred Grosser, Champion of French-German Reconciliation, Dies at 99
A German-born Jew who became a French writer and activist, he devoted his life to healing the divide between two historic enemies after the trauma of World War II.
The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice
Dwight Garner discusses a new oral history of the venerable alt-weekly, Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write.”
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