Thursday, May 30, 2024 - 5:00am
By Laura Collins-Hughes
In “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics took center stage.
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 7:09pm
By Sam Roberts
She was the first photographer allowed to document life among the Hopi, in the Southwest, since the early 20th century. Her work appeared in books and magazines.
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 11:00am
By Ted Widmer
In “The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt,” Edward F. O’Keefe explores the informal kitchen cabinet that helped Roosevelt, the 26th president, speak softly and carry a big stick.
Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 10:15am
By Clancy Martin
“The Devil’s Best Trick,” Randall Sullivan’s in-depth occult investigation, is not for the easily frightened.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - 7:00pm
By Penelope Green
She believed the bond between adults was as sustaining as that between parent and child, and developed a therapy to strengthen and repair broken relationships.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - 5:02am
By Liesl Schillinger
In “Cunning Folk,” Tabitha Stanmore takes us back to a time when the use of “service magic” was an everyday — and underground — practice.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024 - 5:00am
By Paul Rudnick
In David Nicholls’s “You Are Here,” a boggy trek through the English countryside becomes an unlikely impetus for midlife romance.
Monday, May 27, 2024 - 12:09pm
By Houman Barekat
How do you bring an almost plotless book of elliptical fragments to the stage? The director Katie Mitchell has tried with three actors, four screens and three bottles of whiskey.
Monday, May 27, 2024 - 5:03am
By Dwight Garner
A new biography of the performer, writer and director Elaine May has the intensity to match its subject.
Monday, May 27, 2024 - 5:01am
By Wadzanai Mhute
Chigozie Obioma, the fifth of 12 children in a Nigerian family, dreamed of following in Maradona’s footsteps. Bouts of malaria drove him to books — and changed his life.