Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 5:01am
By Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Cari Vander Yacht
Because we could all use a laugh.
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 5:00am
Men’s personal narratives are dissected; women’s are “dismissed as merely autofiction or memoir,” says the author of “The Light Room: On Art and Care.” Her 2012 “Heroines” has just been reissued.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 3:00pm
By Lawrence A. Rosenwald
In “Glad to the Brink of Fear,” James Marcus frames the great Transcendentalist as a writer for our times.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 12:02pm
By Maureen Corrigan
Adelle Waldman's novel is a workplace ensemble set in a Costco-like store. But, because Help Wanted is a group portrait, it tends to visit, rather than settle in with, its working class characters.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 5:03am
By Jennifer Szalai
In “Soldiers and Kings,” the anthropologist Jason De León interviews smugglers, arguing that they are victims of poverty and violence, even as they exploit the humans in their care.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 5:00am
By Leila Mottley
The Bay Area has had many lives. The Oakland novelist Leila Mottley shares books that paint a picture of the city that lives and breathes today.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 7:37pm
By Marc Tracy
An Israeli writer’s essay about seeking common ground with Palestinians led to the resignation of at least 10 staff members at Guernica.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 5:46pm
By Adam Nossiter
A Hunter College sociologist, she examined the power dynamics and difficult history of her native land from a feminist and anticolonial perspective.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 11:21am
By Carlene Bauer
In “Devout,” an author who grew up in the evangelical church recounts her struggle to find spiritual and psychological well-being after a mental health challenge.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 5:02am
By Dennis Lehane
Colin Barrett’s first novel, “Wild Houses,” follows young, desperate characters in small-town Ireland.