Nonfiction: England’s Poet of Melancholy, and Why He Never Went Out of Print
Peter Parker’s “Housman Country” describes a poet who evoked a timeless countryside when England was becoming increasingly urban.
By the Book: Jane Green: By the Book
The author of “The Sunshine Sisters” is drawn to books by their covers: “There is still nothing like browsing in a bookstore with all the time in the world, allowing myself to be drawn to whatever catches my eye.”
Roving Eye: Remains of the Day
What can writers’ diaries tell us about our vexed relationship with time?
New Chester Himes Biography Reveals A Life As Wild As Any Detective Story
Lawrence P. Jackson's biography tracks the writer's course from prison to published novelist. Critic Maureen Corrigan says Himes' life story is well worth reading.
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Fiction: A Fictional Patricia Highsmith as Strange as the Real One
Jill Dawson’s novel “The Crime Writer” uses the life of Patricia Highsmith to explore the territory between reality and fantasy.
'Strange Practice:' The Doctor Is In
In Strange Practice, Vivian Shaw kicks off a new series about Dr. Greta Helsing, descendant of the famous Professor Abraham Van Helsing and general practitioner to the ghouls and ghasts of London.
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Nonfiction: Three New Books Discuss How to Confront and Reform Racist Policing
Books by former Dallas police chief David O. Brown and the law professor Paul Butler, and a collection edited by Angela J. Davis, call for transformation of the system.
Fiction: In ‘So Much Blue,’ a Married Painter Spills Secrets
The artist at the center of Percival Everett’s new novel provides three narrative threads, including one of his affair in Paris.
‘Minecraft: The Island’ Blurs the Line Between Fiction and Gaming
Max Brooks’s new novel has an unusual premise: It can also be played within a video game.
#1: Capital Gaines: Smart Things I Learned Doing Stupid Stuff
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'The World Broke In Two': Four Writers, One Transformational Year
Using excerpts from letters and diaries, historian and critic Bill Goldstein follows writers Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot through the tumultuous literary year of 1922.
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Fiction: On Vacation in Greece, and Refusing to Feel Ancient
Pushing 70, the three women at the center of Lynn Freed’s novel “The Last Laugh” discover that passion and conflict remain powerful forces.
Nonfiction: What Happens When Liberty Fails to Deliver
In “The Retreat of Western Liberalism,” Edward Luce argues that the tradition of liberty is under mortal threat.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Seeking Poetry with That Certain Slant of Light
An admirer of Emily Dickinson and Anne Carson asks for poetry recommendations. Susan Howe, Charles Wright, Monica Youn, Maggie Nelson and more ensue.
Books of The Times: Portrait of a Nigerian Marriage in a Heartbreaking Debut Novel
Ayobami Adebayo’s “Stay With Me,” like great works by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, explores the pull between tradition and modernity in Nigeria.
#2: Chasing Excellence: A Story About Building the World?s Fittest Athletes
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Nonfiction: An Odyssey Through Self-Harm and Out the Other Side
In the memoir “Lights On, Rats Out,” Cree LeFavour recalls the damaged young woman she once was.
Fiction: Around the World in 50 Years
To mark a major birthday (and avoid an ex-lover’s wedding), the hero of Andrew Sean Greer’s novel “Less” embarks on a long journey.
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