Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 12:02pm
By Gabino Iglesias
Eric Rickstad's novel is full of sadness and rage; it forces readers to look at one of the ugliest parts of U.S. culture, a too-common occurrence that is extremely rare in other countries.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 10:37am
Responding to our list of the funniest books since “Catch-22,” readers offer their own choices.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 5:00am
By Scott Anderson
In “The Return of Great Powers” and “Up in Arms,” Jim Sciutto and Adam E. Casey consider modern-day superpower conflict through the lens of the past.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 5:00am
By Amanda Eyre Ward
A Philadelphia chef goes searching for her family history in Jo Piazza’s sun-baked multigenerational tale “The Sicilian Inheritance.”
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 5:00am
By Jonathan Lee
An editor’s ambition. A coveted manuscript. The gift of a cow. Lives and lies graze one another in Neel Mukherjee’s tragicomic novel.
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 12:50pm
By Elisabeth Egan and Chase Castor
The tale behind a new museum of children’s literature is equal parts imagination, chutzpah and “The Little Engine That Could.”
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 11:01am
By Benjamin P. Russell
“City in Ruins” is the third novel in Winslow’s Danny Ryan trilogy and, he says, his last book. He’s retiring in part to invest more time into political activism.
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 5:02am
By Ben Sisario
At 87, the dapper insider is releasing a new book of interviews conducted in 1980 and 1981 with the band and people nearest to it.
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 5:02am
By Ben Sisario
At 87, the dapper insider is releasing a new book of interviews conducted in 1980 and 1981 with the band and people nearest to it.
Monday, April 1, 2024 - 5:01am
By Luis Alberto Urrea
In Julia Alvarez’s “The Cemetery of Untold Stories,” a boneyard in the Dominican Republic becomes a rich wellspring for discarded narratives.