Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 5:01am
By Aida Alami
For Iman Mersal, the slim novel was “life altering.” She narrates her journey in the footsteps of its largely forgotten author in “Traces of Enayat.”
Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 5:00am
By Alexandra Jacobs
Cynthia Carr’s compassionate biography chronicles the brief, poignant life of the transgender actress Candy Darling, whose “very existence was radical.”
Sunday, March 31, 2024 - 5:00am
By Maya Van Wagenen
Maya Van Wagenen, the author of “Chronically Dolores,” shares her favorite young adult books that authentically represent being a teenager living with illness.
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 7:50am
Jean-Luc Nancy’s “God, Justice, Love, Beauty”; Barbara Vine’s “A Dark-Adapted Eye”
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 5:02am
By Michelle Orange
Annabelle Tometich’s “The Mango Tree” provides an unvarnished look at her mother, who shot a BB gun at the truck of a purported fruit thief.
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 5:02am
By Hamilton Cain
“Table for Two” is a collection of six stories and a novella set in two very different cultural capitals.
Saturday, March 30, 2024 - 5:01am
By Sarah Moss
In Carys Davies’s latest novel, a financially struggling pastor is dispatched to a remote island to evict its lone resident.
Friday, March 29, 2024 - 4:24pm
By Alexis Soloski
She’s sold more than 25 million copies, but isn’t slowing down. An Amazon series and a film getting wide distribution mark a new phase.
Friday, March 29, 2024 - 2:54pm
By Michael S. Rosenwald
His biographies of Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti came to overshadow his own work. “I would love an interview,” he once said, “where Bukowski is not mentioned.”
Friday, March 29, 2024 - 1:10pm
Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai weigh in on 22 of the funniest novels since “Catch-22.”