Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 5:00am
By A.O. Scott
Now a suburban married mother, Eilis Lacey finds herself in a quandary in “Long Island,” Colm Tóibín’s sequel to his much-admired novel.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 5:00am
By Alexander Chee
Inspired by her grandmother, Eve J. Chung’s lively novel, “Daughters of Shandong,” traces a harrowing journey across 1950s Communist China.
Monday, May 6, 2024 - 5:59pm
By Elizabeth A. Harris and Joumana Khatib
Jayne Anne Phillips won the fiction award for “Night Watch,” while Jonathan Eig and Ilyon Woo shared the biography prize.
Monday, May 6, 2024 - 5:51pm
By A.O. Scott
Americans like their politicians to be dog people. Gov. Noem broke the mold.
Monday, May 6, 2024 - 8:55am
By Mona Awad
Montreal is a city as appealing for its beauty as for its shadows. Here, the novelist Mona Awad recommends books that are “both dreamy and uncompromising.”
Monday, May 6, 2024 - 5:02am
By Dwight Garner
Hari Kunzru examines the ties between art and wealth in a new novel, “Blue Ruin.”
Monday, May 6, 2024 - 5:00am
By Eliza Minot
In Alexis Landau’s ambitious new novel, “The Mother of All Things,” the frustrations of modern parenting echo through the ages.
Monday, May 6, 2024 - 5:00am
By Charlie Lee
Michael Deagler’s first novel follows a young man who is piecing his life back together and trying very hard not to drink.
Monday, May 6, 2024 - 5:00am
By Lucinda Rosenfeld
The sociologist Sarah Thornton visits strip clubs, milk banks and cosmetic surgeons with the goal of shoring up appreciation for women’s breasts.
Sunday, May 5, 2024 - 3:47pm
By Clay Risen
His anthology “Technicians of the Sacred” included a range of non-Western work and was beloved by, among others, rock stars like Jim Morrison and Nick Cave.