Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 5:03am
By Susannah Cahalan
As described by Gabriel Brownstein, the basis for one of Freud’s most famous cases posed as many questions as it answered.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 5:03am
By Lucy Ellmann
“Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other,” the author’s new collection, ranges from a playful one-act drama set in a lake to short fiction rife with apocalyptic anxiety.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 5:03am
By Elizabeth Winkler
Every year, millions flock to Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to visit the house known as Shakespeare’s Birthplace. But was he really born there? A whole industry depends on it.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 5:01am
By Emma Brockes
In “The Whole Staggering Mystery,” Sylvia Brownrigg explores her mysterious parent’s past, and finds more than she bargained for.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 5:01am
By Wesley Stace
“Lucky” features a 1970s singer-songwriter who finds improbable success.
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 5:08pm
By Jennifer Schuessler
The event had been set for April 29, but weeks of escalating criticism of the organization’s response to the war had led nearly half of the prize nominees to withdraw.
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 10:02am
By Barbara J. King
Novelist Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles centers on an array of birds that visit her yard, as Trish O'Kane's Birding to Change the World recalls lessons from birds that galvanized her teaching.
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 10:02am
By Barbara J. King
Novelist Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles centers on an array of birds that visit her yard, as Trish O'Kane's Birding to Change the World recalls lessons from birds that galvanized her teaching.
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 5:03am
By Dwight Garner
The editor and essayist Joseph Epstein looks back on his life and career in two new books.
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 5:02am
By A.O. Scott
How Percival Everett and Barbara Kingsolver reimagined classic works by Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.