Tuesday, February 20, 2024 - 10:45am
By Ilana Masad
In different variations of her signature, beautifully frank language, Leslie Jamison writes about her fantasy of stability and her uncertainty as to whether it's a dream she actually wants fulfilled.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 - 5:01am
By Peter Fritzsche
In “Out of the Darkness,” Frank Trentmann details the way people in the country that started World War II are still confronting and atoning for the atrocities of their government.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 - 5:00am
By Fintan O’Toole
In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture.
Monday, February 19, 2024 - 3:22pm
By Ari L. Goldman
Rabbi Harlow’s prayer books, including “Siddur Sim Shalom,” became the standards of worship in Conservative synagogues across North America.
Monday, February 19, 2024 - 11:17am
By Maureen Corrigan
Hisashi Kashiwai's charming novel centers on a diner where carefully reconstructed meals help unlock mysteries of memory and regret.
Monday, February 19, 2024 - 10:00am
By George Gene Gustines
Oni Press will revive the beloved horror and sci-fi name with new stories starting this summer.
Monday, February 19, 2024 - 5:03am
By Dwight Garner
A new biography chronicles this essential American writer’s complicated love life, celebrated career and singular talents.
Monday, February 19, 2024 - 5:00am
By Deirdre Mask
In “Language City,” the linguist Ross Perlin chronicles some of the precious traditions hanging on in the world’s most linguistically diverse metropolis.
Sunday, February 18, 2024 - 12:50pm
By Sam Roberts
He popularized the term “institutional racism" and, with Stokely Carmichael, wrote a book in 1967 that was seen as a radical manifesto.
Sunday, February 18, 2024 - 5:04am
By Elizabeth A. Harris
Books — often riddled with gross grammatical and factual errors — are appearing for sale online soon after the death of well-known people.