Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 5:00am
By Alan Light
Recent books by Ghostface Killah, Kathleen Hanna, Michael McDonald and Darius Rucker hit notes both high and low.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 2:33pm
By Joseph Berger
In an online exhibition, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research will explore the account of Yitskhok Rudashevski. He was 13 when the Germans took over Vilnius, Lithuania.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 5:03am
By MJ Franklin
In July, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” Patricia Highsmith’s classic 1955 thriller about wealth, status, obsession and murder.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 5:01am
By Kate Tuttle
In Liz Moore’s new novel, “The God of the Woods,” a pair of missing siblings spark a reckoning on the banks of an Adirondack lake.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 5:00am
By Louis Bayard
Maureen Callahan’s lurid “Ask Not” paints the Kennedys as mad, bad and dangerous for women to know.
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 5:14pm
By Penelope Green
She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of her yearning for the mother she lost.
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 1:21pm
By Amelia Nierenberg
Kadare received the inaugural International Booker Prize in 2005. In his books, the prolific Albanian author offered a window into the psychology of oppression. Here’s where to start.
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 7:27am
By Rusha Haljuci
He was compared to Orwell and Kafka, and walked a political tightrope with works of veiled criticism for his totalitarian state.
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 5:02am
By Dwight Garner
Joy Williams distills much learning — from philosophy, religion and history — into 99 stories about the guy who takes your soul.
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 5:00am
By Robyn Creswell
Ikbal and Idries Shah delighted London society with their romantic tales of the East. The only problem? They made them up.