Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 2:37pm
By Caitlyn Paxson
A heist with a social conscience, a father using magic for questionable work, an urban legend turned sleepover dare: These new releases explore protagonists embracing the magic within themselves.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 11:29am
By Elisa Gabbert
Critics and readers love the term, but it can be awfully slippery to pin down. That’s what makes it so fun to try.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:06am
By Jennifer Szalai
The economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid out by John Rawls in the 1970s.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:05am
By Benjamin P. Russell
In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, at times unethical, competition among early American ornithologists.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 - 5:01am
By Amal El-Mohtar
New books by H.A. Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett and Micaiah Johnson.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 5:14pm
By Penelope Green
Born in England and raised Jewish, she became agnostic, writing books about her own lack of faith, the prophet Muhammad and her time as a car columnist.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 3:03pm
By Heller McAlpin
In a heartrending follow-up to his beloved 2009 novel, Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín's handles uncertainties and moral conundrums with exquisite delicacy, zigzagging through time to a devastating climax.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 12:00pm
By Michael Paulson
The Oscar-winning actor will star as an A.I.-curious author in “McNeal,” starting performances in September at Lincoln Center Theater.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 6:21am
By Sam Thielman
In an era of endlessly safe comic universes, “Miracleman: The Silver Age” goes another way with the return of a godlike hero from a world more like ours.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 5:01am
By Sarah Lyall
News stories have chronicled the basketball star’s detention in a Russian prison. Here’s her version.