
Didion, Revisited
“I didn’t know what I was getting into.” David L. Ulin on the experience of revisiting the writer whose novels…
“I didn’t know what I was getting into.” David L. Ulin on the experience of revisiting the writer whose novels…
In the new novel from the author of “The Family Fang,” a pair of siblings shares a mysterious — and…
To be made party to her mother’s secrets was, for teenage Adrienne Brodeur, at first a sign of their deep…
In the new novel from the author of “Leaving the Atocha Station,” the boundary between invention and memory isn’t a…
The author of the stunning new memoir “The Yellow House” took a reporter’s tools to trace her New Orleans family’s…
The hybrid punctuation mark has met with resistance from many readers and writers since its invention by an early printer.…
Colson Whitehead’s new novel tells the story of two boys incarcerated a Florida “academy” — and raises haunting questions about…
Why the writer’s work capturing “the Spirit of America” has never been more timely.
The poet-turned-novelist brings a haunting, fragmentary approach to the story of a young man’s relationship with his mother in “On…
Casey Cep revisits the true crime story that tantalized and eluded Harper Lee — and finds a window into the…
The long-unsolved murder of a Belfast widow is the dark gateway into Patrick Radden Keefe’s portrait of terror, secrets and…
The most celebrated political biographer of our era unveils the painstaking methods out of which his masterworks have been built.
A new book revisits the making of Sam Peckinpah’s blood-soaked masterpiece.
Don Winslow concludes the epic drug-trade trilogy he began in “The Power of the Dog,” and his stories have never…
A sweeping new look at the modern history of American Indians challenges many of the narratives that have defined mainstream…
Reading to explore and celebrate the life — and extend the legacy — of the great civil rights leader.
The author of the viral short story “Cat Person” talks with Maris Kreizman on that story and her new collection…
A posthumous memoir and collection of stories from the author of A Manual for Cleaning Woman offer a glimpse into…
Mary Gabriel’s group biography puts the spotlight on five trailblazers of abstract art — all of them women.
A new life of the great foe of slavery and racism contends with its subject’s own monumental work of autobiography.