Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 5:00am
By Alissa Wilkinson
In “The Uptown Local,” Cory Leadbeater describes his years as the late writer’s assistant and companion. Yet the fond portrait reveals more about him than her.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 12:00pm
By Claire Wang
The pandemic fueled a boom in social justice movements and indie bookstores. The two come together in these worker-owned shops.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 11:16am
By Heller McAlpin
Jill Ciment wrote about a relationship she had with a teacher when she was very young – that turned into a marriage – in Half a Life. Now, eight years after his death at 93, she reconsiders their relationship in light of the #MToo movement.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 10:25am
By Maureen Corrigan
Jill Ciment was 17 in 1970 when she got involved with the 47-year-old teacher who would become her husband. Now widowed, she reconsiders the relationship — and its "poisonous" beginnings.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 9:50am
By Tonya Mosley
In a new memoir, Dunne writes about growing up in a family of storytellers, his complicated relationship with fame and the trauma the family experienced after the 1982 murder of his sister, Dominique.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 5:04am
By Dwight Garner
Her new novel, “Parade,” considers the perplexity and solipsism of the creative life.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 5:02am
By Alexandra Alter
Jill Ciment’s 1996 memoir “Half a Life” described her teenage affair with the man she eventually married. Her new memoir, “Consent,” dramatically revises some details.
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 5:00am
By Seth Sherwood
Bibliophiles will find plenty of centuries-old tomes, graphic novels, modern works and more in this French city, which also happens to be this year’s UNESCO World Book Capital.
Sunday, June 9, 2024 - 2:46pm
By Carribean Fragoza
In Marcela Fuentes’s novel, “Malas,” a troubled teenager finds refuge in music and in a recluse with a dark history.
Sunday, June 9, 2024 - 5:02am
By Alexandra Jacobs
In his memoir “The Friday Afternoon Club,” the Hollywood hyphenate Griffin Dunne, best known for his role in Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours,” recounts his privileged upbringing.