Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 12:07pm
By Sarah Bahr
In “Tuesdays With Morrie,” the 84-year-old actor was eager to tackle “a rich role in a show that asks, ‘What if despair and death are not the end?’”
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 9:57am
By Michael Schaub
Hanif Abdurraqib's latest book is about hoops, sure, but it's also about so much more. It's another remarkable book from one of the country's smartest cultural critics.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 7:26am
By Parker Henry
Three new books explore the complications of liberty and the seductions of authoritarianism in American life.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 5:04am
By Alexandra Alter
The actress, known for roles in the “Pitch Perfect” movies, gets vulnerable about her weight loss, sexuality and money in her new memoir, “Rebel Rising.”
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 5:03am
By Jennifer Szalai
Judith Butler’s new book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?,” tries to turn down the heat on an inflamed argument.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 5:02am
By Jon Agee
The children in these illustrated satirical tales are up against something far more complex than ogres, witches and big bad wolves.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 5:00am
By Grayson Haver Currin
In “My Black Country,” the musician and author who cracked a Nashville color barrier is telling her story — and hearing her songs reimagined.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 7:46pm
By Dave Kim
By merrily using fiction to dissect itself, he was at the vanguard of a movement that defined a postwar American style.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 7:13pm
By Clay Risen
She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 7:07pm
By Michael T. Kaufman and Dwight Garner
His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.