Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 5:00am
By Daisy Fried
Frederick Seidel’s 19th book, “So What,” is filled with politics, disease, luxury and provocation. At almost 90, he’s one of our best contemporary poets.
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 5:00am
By Eric Deggans
Rather than bemoan pop culture’s most divisive genre, Emily Nussbaum spends time with the creators, the stars and the victims of the decades-long effort to generate buzz.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 5:17pm
By Adam Nossiter
He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark as a politically engaged, and strolling, historian of Paris.
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.