On Trails: An Exploration
Robert Moor takes a journey on paths that lead through memory and over mountains, and into places where the only…
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Donald Ray Pollock: “A Better Version of a Dime Novel”
The author of “The Heavenly Table” on how television and the paperback fiction of his youth have shaped his fiction.…
Overcoming Invisibility: Mychal Denzel Smith in Conversation with Melissa Harris-Perry
“If we’re actually invested in this idea of freedom, if we’re actually invested in a politics of liberation, how are…
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon
The complex, tragically brief political career of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. provides biographer Larry Tye an opportunity to look at…
Valley of the Dolls: 50th Anniversary Edition
Charles Taylor looks back at Jacqueline Susann’s controversial bestseller on the occasion of its 50th birthday.
“Sort of Irresistible:” Emma Straub and Meg Wolitzer on “Modern Lovers”
The author of “Modern Lovers” talks with the writer of “The Interestings” about the secrets to writing sparkling comic fiction.
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer
Arthur Lubow’s new biography attempts to unravel the enigma of a photographer who specialized in human mystery. Review by Michelle…
Zero K
In Don DeLillo’s fiction, words are the last line of defense. Review by Christopher Byrd.
The Last Samurai
Paul La Farge revisit’s Helen DeWitt’s novel in which intellectual playfulness is at the core of a boy’s education.
The Romanovs
Simon Sebag Montefiore’s group portrait of Russia’s long-reigning dynasty captures a family whose crowned heads included both despots and disasters.…
The Opposite of Labels: Garrard Conley
The author of “Boy Erased” on dealing with the trauma of “gay conversion therapy,” identifying with Hester Prynne, and fighting…
Everybody is an Outsider: Helen Simonson on “The Summer Before the War”
The author of “Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand” talks about her new novel with award-winning writer Elizabeth Strout.
The Necessary Villain: Nathaniel Philbrick on Benedict Arnold and “Valiant Ambition”
Nathaniel Philbrick, author of “Bunker Hill” and “In the Heart of the Sea,” turns his historical imagination to the question…
Paul McCartney: The Life
Philip Norman’s big new life of Sir Paul makes the case for a rebellious spirit masked by a showman’s charm.…
The Noise of Time
In Julian Barnes’s new novel, the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich collects Soviet honors while dreading the tap on the shoulder…
Imagine Me Gone
Adam Haslett’s new novel immerses readers in a life in which music is both food for — and relief from…
Love and Money: Cynthia Sweeney Talks “The Nest” with Susan Orlean
The author talks about how she set out to write a story of a family — and discovered she’d created…
Our Eviction Epidemic: Matthew Desmond and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
The author of “Evicted” talks about his new book and how a wave of home loss is altering America, perhaps…
The Call of the Outsider: Kaitlyn Greenidge
The author of “We Love You, Charlie Freeman” talks about the genesis of her novel, in which a family engage…
Dana Spiotta Won’t Make It Simple
The author of “Innocents and Others” talks with David Ulin about playing tricks with readers — and then showing them…