Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 5:00am
By Alexandra Jacobs
The journalist Richard Behar communicated extensively with the disgraced financier. His rigorous if irreverent book acknowledges his subject’s humanity.
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 5:00am
By Sarah Weinman
The books in this month’s column have something in common: unforgettable main characters.
Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 7:50am
In a memoir and a novel, the characters deal with grief by singing in front of strangers.
Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 7:00am
By Tahneer Oksman
Many assume that timidity -- or its close cousin, shyness -- is solely a negative trait. But longtime cartoonist Jonathan Todd shows this is not always the case in this semi-autobiographical tale.
(Image credit: Jonathan Todd)
Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 5:03am
By Jim Windolf
In “All the Worst Humans,” Phil Elwood recounts a career spent engineering headlines for some of the world’s villains.
Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 5:02am
By Jennifer Schuessler
In “Swimming Pretty,” Vicki Valosik connects the evolution of an unlikely sport with the century-long struggle of women to be taken seriously in the water.
Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 5:02am
By Jennifer Schuessler
In “Swimming Pretty,” Vicki Valosik connects the evolution of an unlikely sport with the century-long struggle of women to be taken seriously in the water.
Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 5:00am
By Lydia Millet
In Fernanda Trías’s novel “Pink Slime,” one woman holds out in her town after an environmental disaster, trapped in a limbo of indecision while caring for destructive kin.
Friday, June 28, 2024 - 4:00pm
Bullwinkel’s debut novel sheds light on the culture of youth women’s boxing through an ensemble cast of complicated characters. It packs a punch.
Friday, June 28, 2024 - 5:02am
New novels from J. Courtney Sullivan and Liz Moore, a memoir by a “hacktivist” member of Anonymous — and more.