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...
It takes a lot for me to lose patience. My first biography, “The Peabody Sisters,” about three unsung heroines of New England’s Transcendentalist movement, took two...
GODDESS COMPLEX, by Sanjena Sathian If you’re a woman in America and you don’t want children — and if you’re honest about this when people ask...
STAG DANCE: A Novel and Stories, by Torrey Peters In an 1817 letter to his brothers, the poet John Keats defined the concept of negative capability...
AIR-BORNE: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, by Carl Zimmer At the start of 2020, a small team of scientists tried and failed to...
Dear readers, I’m not going to get into the various reasons you might have for wanting to go somewhere else right now — somewhere, let’s say,...
There really was a woman who photocopied her butt at a workplace in the 1980s. Curtis Sittenfeld, 49, heard about the incident when she was a...
