Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 5:02am
By Nick Hornby
Young, single and broke, a new mom finds creative ways to stay afloat in Rufi Thorpe’s deft comic novel “Margo’s Got Money Troubles.”
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 5:02am
By Andrew Martin
Her first novel, “Ask Me Again,” follows a young woman from high school in New York City to an elite university, to her early adulthood among the political class in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 5:01am
By Kashana Cauley
In Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California suburb is not what it seems.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 5:01am
By Kashana Cauley
In Nicola Yoon’s first novel for adults, “One of Our Kind,” a woman finds that a lush California suburb is not what it seems.
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 5:00am
By Alissa Wilkinson
In “The Uptown Local,” Cory Leadbeater describes his years as the late writer’s assistant and companion. Yet the fond portrait reveals more about him than her.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 12:00pm
By Claire Wang
The pandemic fueled a boom in social justice movements and indie bookstores. The two come together in these worker-owned shops.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 11:16am
By Heller McAlpin
Jill Ciment wrote about a relationship she had with a teacher when she was very young – that turned into a marriage – in Half a Life. Now, eight years after his death at 93, she reconsiders their relationship in light of the #MToo movement.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 10:25am
By Maureen Corrigan
Jill Ciment was 17 in 1970 when she got involved with the 47-year-old teacher who would become her husband. Now widowed, she reconsiders the relationship — and its "poisonous" beginnings.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 9:50am
By Tonya Mosley
In a new memoir, Dunne writes about growing up in a family of storytellers, his complicated relationship with fame and the trauma the family experienced after the 1982 murder of his sister, Dominique.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 5:04am
By Dwight Garner
Her new novel, “Parade,” considers the perplexity and solipsism of the creative life.