Friday, June 21, 2019 - 12:02pm
By Alexandra Alter and Mark Mazzetti
Mr. Weissmann appears to be the first prosecutor on the special counsel’s team to agree to write a book, though it is not clear how much he will reveal.
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 7:00am
By Jason Heller
Richard Kadrey — known for his Sandman Slim series of supernatural noirs — reinvents himself in grand fashion with The Grand Dark, a diesel-punk fantasy set in a simulacrum of Weimar Germany.
(Image credit: Harper Voyager)
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 5:00am
By Tamara Shopsin
The illustrator Tamara Shopsin offers her take on lines from the poetry of David Berman.
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 5:00am
By Maria Russo
Sometimes kids need stories about the stuff they know already: how — and why — to hold hands. How — and why — to read books. How to be a good friend.
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 5:00am
By James Ryerson
Can moral philosophy teach us the best way to live?
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 5:00am
By Gary Kamiya
“The White Devil’s Daughters,” by Julia Flynn Siler, recounts the story of the crusading women (and a few men) who helped rescue thousands of young Chinese slaves between the 1870s and the 1930s.
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 5:00am
By Alison McCulloch
A quartet of first fiction offers a range of experiences: urban rambles, immigrant strife, wartime drama and the unraveling of a mysterious crime.
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 5:00am
By Tony Horwitz
“Sisters and Rebels” by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall delivers a nuanced portrait of the Lumpkin sisters, who responded to their Southern family history in powerful and public ways.
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 5:00am
By Marilyn Stasio
Her latest novel, “Big Sky,” leads off Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column. Rounding out the group: a Japanese puzzle mystery and Gothic and summer resort thrillers.
Friday, June 21, 2019 - 5:00am
By Isabella Hammad
In his latest book, “Children of the Ghetto,” Elias Khoury explores the ways an original trauma of dislocation and death has shaped Palestinian identity.