WE TELL OURSELVES STORIES: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine, by Alissa Wilkinson We go on needing Joan Didion. The aloof gaze; the Scotch and...
THE NEXT ONE IS FOR YOU: A True Story of Guns, Country, and the I.R.A.’s Secret American Army, by Ali Watkins When it comes to understanding...
But it was his unlucky fate to enter posterity as the subject of other people’s art and protest rather than the creator of his own. A...
SONS AND DAUGHTERS, by Chaim Grade; translated by Rose Waldman There’s a new old writer headed for the front tables of bookstores. The Lithuania-born Chaim Grade,...
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of long-running squabbles between writers...
CARELESS PEOPLE: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams The publisher of “Careless People” kept the existence of this memoir a...
Geoff Nicholson, whose darkly comic literary novels and eclectic nonfiction were full of characters defined by their obsessions — with cartography, Volkswagen Beetles, urban walking, jokes...
By Deanna Raybourn In Raybourn’s “Killers of a Certain Age” (2022), four female assassins on a celebratory retirement cruise discovered their lives were in danger. It...
THE TOKYO SUITE, by Giovana Madalosso; translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato Humanity is hurtling into outer space, creating new states of matter and developing ever-creepier forms...
In an email interview, the 2021 Nobel laureate talked about the pleasure of meeting new readers and why he writes about “unexpected kindnesses.” SCOTT HELLER What...
