The singer-songwriter — and now, memoirist — on the love songs she finds between covers.
As summer bids us farewell and vacation time winds down, what could be better than curling up with a transportive book? Whether you’re in the mood for 1940s Britain, 1970s Argentina, 1990s Paris, or current-day America with all its rapid-fire twists and turns, September’s best new novels will enthrall you. Fascinating love stories, daring tales […]
Gong Xi Fa Cai! This Thursday marks the Chinese Lunar New Year, that auspicious time of year when you put on your best red clothes, eat a fish for luck, and dutifully abide by all of your mother’s Chinese New Year superstitions. Okay, that might just be my family. This year, the Lunar New Year kicks […]
The best novels of 2014 delve into the recent past, the near future, and faraway worlds. Encompassing late-career epics and ambitious debuts, they consider the after-effects of everything from apocalypse to adultery, and reckon with religion and war using dreams, magic, science fiction, and occasionally nothing but the power of prose. Sometimes, in the grand […]
Dear Literary Lady, My best friend is leaving town. Should I give him a book as going-away present, and if so, how do I choose one? –C.G., New York, NY Dear C.G., Ernest Hemingway once said, “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” I used to think that quote was overblown, that Hemingway’s words were […]
