Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen The novel “Our Evenings,” by Alan Hollinghurst, follows a gay English Burmese actor from childhood into old...
James Carlos Blake, whose savage, lyrical novels about outlaws, bootleggers and gunslinging murderers resurrected the violent history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, drawing comparisons to titans of...
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In 1969, the British comedy writer and performer Michael Palin, then building a career out of being extremely silly, did something utterly sensible: He quit his...
Imani Perry often finds herself talking about things people get wrong about the South. For one thing, she says, there isn’t a single South, but many...
Time and space break free of their usual constraints in some of this week’s recommended books: Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” dives deep into the...
Roving Eye is the Book Review’s essay series on international writers of the past whose works warrant a fresh look, often in light of reissued, updated...
She also warns about “candidate answers,” a kind of leading the witness, in which one asks an open-ended question only to narrow it down in anticipation....
SUPERBLOOM: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, by Nicholas Carr THE SIRENS’ CALL: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource, by Chris Hayes On...
We’ve seen since the Regency how romance plots generate tension from the friction between characters’ emotions and their family’s expectations. Many contemporary romances are modern skins...
