Book Review: ‘Orlanda,’ by Jacqueline Harpman Date Thursday, October 09, 2025 - 3:02 AM Description In Jacqueline Harpman’s novel “Orlanda,” the repressed half of a woman’s soul jumps into the body of a man. Chaos ensues.
Book Review: ‘It Girl,’ by Marisa Meltzer Image Date Wednesday, October 08, 2025 - 9:16 AM Description In a new biography, “It Girl,” the journalist Marisa Meltzer makes a case for the doe-eyed style icon as more than a muse.
Book Review: ‘Paper Girl,’ by Beth Macy Date Wednesday, October 08, 2025 - 3:01 AM Description To write “Paper Girl,” Beth Macy returned to Urbana, Ohio, documenting the descent of a once flourishing town into entrenched poverty and acrimony.
Book Review: ‘The Conservative Frontier,’ by Jeff Roche Image Date Tuesday, October 07, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description In “The Conservative Frontier,” Jeff Roche makes the case that the modern Republican Party was born in West Texas.
Book Review: ‘Race Against Terror,’ by Jake Tapper Image Date Tuesday, October 07, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description In “Race Against Terror,” Tapper makes a courtroom drama out of the strange case of a jihadi fighter who turned himself in.
Book Review: ‘Near Flesh: Stories,’ by Katherine Dunn Image Date Tuesday, October 07, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description Her first and only collection of short fiction, gleaned from her archive, pulses with energy and struggling characters.
Book Review: ‘Death and the Gardener,’ by Georgi Gospodinov Image Date Monday, October 06, 2025 - 12:12 PM Description In the autofictional “Death and the Gardener,” the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov remembers an ordinary man ennobled by a love of the land.
Book Review: ‘Mothers,’ by Brenda Lozano Date Monday, October 06, 2025 - 11:41 AM Description A cheeky narrator recounts a parent’s worst nightmare in Brenda Lozano’s new novel.
Book Review: ‘The Four Spent the Day Together,’ by Chris Kraus Image Date Monday, October 06, 2025 - 10:06 AM Description The author of “I Love Dick” returns with a novel that combines autobiography and true crime.
Book Review: ‘Gertrude Stein,’ by Francesca Wade Image Date Monday, October 06, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description The modernist novelist, art collector and saloniste held a high opinion of herself. Francesca Wade probes Stein’s life and legacy, taking her at her word.