In 1981, Nettie Jones was shopping her debut novel, “Fish Tales,” a shocking story about a married woman’s booze- and drug-fueled sexual escapades. Full of violence,...
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who combined gritty realism with playful erotica and depictions of the struggle for individual liberty in Latin America, while also...
Max Kozloff, a leading art critic who helped readers of The Nation and Artforum navigate the array of movements that followed Abstract Expressionism in the 1960s...
The elusive novelist Thomas Pynchon will publish a new book this fall, his first in more than a decade. The novel, “Shadow Ticket,” is due out...
As U.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón has had a far-reaching impact. She has visited readers and writers across the country, installed poems at majestic sites in...
As a child growing up in Zimbabwe, Peter Godwin saw neighbors murdered by guerrillas during the civil war that broke out during the fight for independence...
As U.S. poet laureate, Ada Limón has had a far-reaching impact. She has visited readers and writers across the country, installed poems at majestic sites in...
AUTHORITY: Essays, by Andrea Long Chu What a strange book “Authority,” by Andrea Long Chu, is — brilliant, blind. The book critic for New York magazine...
A satire of expatriate life in trendy Berlin, a tale of an antiquarian book dealer stuck in a time loop, and a fictionalized retelling of a...
The article of which he was most proud was “The Woman Who Beat the Klan,” published in The Times Magazine in 1987, about Beulah Mae Donald,...
