Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - 5:01am
By Dennis Duncan
In “The Language Puzzle,” the archaeologist Steven Mithen asks exactly how our species started speaking.
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - 5:00am
By Alexandra Jacobs
In a frank but measured memoir, “On Call,” the physician looks back at a career bookended by two public health crises: AIDS and Covid-19.
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - 5:00am
By Cathi Hanauer
In her new novel, “Sandwich,” Catherine Newman explores the aches and joys of midlife via one family’s summer week at the beach.
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 - 5:00am
By Anne Hull
In “A Place of Our Own,” June Thomas considers “six spaces that shaped queer women’s culture.”
Monday, June 17, 2024 - 5:40pm
By Meghan Collins Sullivan
We asked around the newsroom to find favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. We've got biography and memoir, health and science, history, sports and much more.
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Monday, June 17, 2024 - 5:05pm
By Meghan Collins Sullivan
At work: hardworking news journalists. At home: omnivorous fiction readers. We asked our colleagues what they've enjoyed most this year and here are the titles they shared.
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Monday, June 17, 2024 - 12:00pm
By Hamilton Cain
“Same as It Ever Was,” by Claire Lombardo, is a 500-page, multigenerational examination of the ties that bind.
Monday, June 17, 2024 - 5:03am
By Sarah Lyall
Our columnist on three twisty new tales of murder.
Monday, June 17, 2024 - 5:01am
By W. Caleb McDaniel
In her new book, Jessica Goudeau confronts a history of racism and violence in Texas through an investigation of her ancestors’ stories.
Monday, June 17, 2024 - 5:01am
By Danez Smith
Joseph Earl Thomas’s new novel, “God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer,” follows a health care worker on a tumultuous shift where every other patient seems to be someone from his past.