Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 5:00am
By Charlie Lee
In Sean Hewitt’s novel, “Open, Heaven,” two isolated boys develop an intense, undefined relationship.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 11:24am
By Ash Wu
As the founder of Woman’s Art Journal and the author of influential textbooks, she documented the work of many accomplished artists who had been ignored.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 5:01am
By Adam Tooze
“What’s Left,” by Malcolm Harris, arrives at a particularly difficult time to consider anything beyond our immediate turmoil.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 5:00am
By Sylvia Brownrigg
In “I Seek a Kind Person,” Julian Borger tells the riveting story of seven children who escaped wartime Austria thanks to a British newspaper.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 5:00am
By Dennis Duncan
Two new books examine efforts to standardize English orthography and the pronouns at the heart of our culture wars, finding that spelling and usage have never conformed to any rules.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 - 5:00am
By Rand Richards Cooper
In “The Imagined Life,” a writer searches his home state and his buried memories for answers about his long-lost father.
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 5:51pm
By Penelope Green
His work pushed the boundaries of political cartoons, expanding the possibilities of illustration everywhere.
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 5:01am
By Dwight Garner
“Searches,” by Vauhini Vara, is both a memoir and a critical study of our digital selves.
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 5:00am
By Madeleine Feeny
Sayaka Murata’s novel “Vanishing World” envisions an alternate universe where artificial insemination is the global norm, and sex takes a back seat.
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 5:00am
By Spencer Strub
In “Lower Than the Angels,” the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch traces two millenniums of libidinal frustration.