Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 2:44pm
By Michael Schaub
Marie Mutsuki Mockett's latest novel about a wife and mother is wise and sensitive, and a stunning reflection on how we reinvent ourselves when we're left with no other choice.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 1:51pm
By Maureen Corrigan
Percival Everett's retelling of Mark Twain's 1885 classic focuses on Huck's enslaved companion. James is a tale so inspired, you won't be able to imagine reading the original without it.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 1:36pm
By Adam Nossiter
He rebelled against efforts to force African ways of thinking into the European worldview. His thoughts had the effect of a bomb in African intellectual life.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 11:22am
By Alida Becker
This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 11:22am
By Alida Becker
This trio of new novels shows real people in their natural habitats, drawn with writerly flair.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 11:00am
By Jennifer Schuessler
The New-York Historical Society honor goes to Jonathan Eig, whose “King: A Life” presents the civil rights leader as a brilliant, flawed 20th-century “founding father.”
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 5:02am
By Daniel Torday
Toby Lloyd centers religion and politics in his novel, “Fervor,” but with a light, mystical touch.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 5:02am
By Tope Folarin
In his latest book, the Harvard scholar shows how African American writers have used the written word to shape their reality despite constraints imposed on them from outside.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 5:02am
By Jenny Comita
Exclusively for T, Marcus Jahmal envisions what happens on page 76 of novels by Neel Mukherjee, Valerie Martin and others.
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 5:02am
By Sam Thielman
Circus tigers, giant spiders, shifting borders and motherhood all threaten to end life as we know it in comics this month.