Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 12:32pm
By Maureen Corrigan
There’s something about the shadowy moral recesses of crime and suspense fiction that makes those genres especially appealing as temperatures soar. Here are four novels that turn the heat up.
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Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 10:50am
By Carole V. Bell
Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker critic Emily Nussbaum's book is a near-definitive history of the genre that forever changed American entertainment.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 5:19am
By Aida Alami
Two decades after his death, a collection of over 800 works that the first president of Senegal owned is moving from France to Dakar.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 5:03am
By Andrew O’Hagan
In his beautiful memoir, “Do Something,” Guy Trebay paints a picture of a vanished, pre-AIDS Gotham that’s both gritty and dazzling.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 5:01am
By Darrell Hartman
In “A Gentleman and a Thief,” Dean Jobb vividly recounts the life and times of the notorious criminal — and tabloid fixture — Arthur Barry.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 5:00am
By Jess Walter
A massive, mysterious grizzly takes on symbolic weight in Julia Phillips’s moody and affecting second novel.
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 3:58pm
By Scott Veale
A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience.
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 11:00am
By David Segal
Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust.
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 5:01am
By Alec MacGillis
“The New Breadline,” by Jean-Martin Bauer, a veteran food aid worker, chronicles a growing problem that should not exist — along with the harmful policies that have exacerbated it.
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 5:00am
By Sallie Tisdale
In “Frostbite,” Nicola Twilley travels the cold chain that preserves what we eat and helps it get around the world.