Interview: Doris Kearns Goodwin on “An Unfinished Love Story”

Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 3:01 AM

Richard Goodwin, an adviser to presidents, “was more interested in shaping history,” she says, “and I in figuring out how history was shaped.” Their bond is at the heart of her new book, “An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s.”

If You Give a Kid a Notebook, He’s Going to Ask for Time to Write

Thursday, April 04, 2024 - 3:02 AM

John Schu is a best-selling author, a children’s librarian and a tireless evangelist for the power of a blank page.

Interview: By the Book with Ada Limón

Thursday, April 04, 2024 - 3:01 AM

“I mean that as an organizing principle,” says the U.S. poet laureate, who has edited a new anthology of nature poetry called “You Are Here,” “and also as a slight against prose.”

Interview: Morgan Parker on ‘You Get What You Pay For: Essays’

Tuesday, March 26, 2024 - 7:08 PM

Crafting the arguments in “You Get What You Pay For,” her first essay collection, “felt like pulling apart a long piece of taffy,” says the author of “Magical Negro.”

In These Graphic Novels, Something Is Horribly Amiss

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 3:02 AM

Circus tigers, giant spiders, shifting borders and motherhood all threaten to end life as we know it in comics this month.

Interview: Kate Zambreno on ‘Heroines’

Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 3:00 AM

Men’s personal narratives are dissected; women’s are “dismissed as merely autofiction or memoir,” says the author of “The Light Room: On Art and Care.” Her 2012 “Heroines” has just been reissued.

Interview: Armistead Maupin on ‘Mona of the Manor’

Thursday, March 07, 2024 - 3:00 AM

Some familiar San Franciscans turn up in the British countryside in “Mona of the Manor,” which the author vows is the 10th, and last, in the series: “That has a nice symmetry.”

Interview: Kate DiCamillo

Thursday, February 29, 2024 - 9:19 AM

The feisty title character of her new book, “Ferris,” has a sharp eye for detail, and so, its author hopes, does she. Meanwhile, she is on an Alice McDermott reading jag.

Interview: Brontez Purnell

Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 3:00 AM

“I’ve been prank-calling Justin Torres for like two decades,” says the poet and performer, whose new book is called “Ten Bridges I’ve Burnt: A Memoir in Verse.”

It’s Alive! EC Comics Returns

Monday, February 19, 2024 - 10:01 AM

Oni Press will revive the beloved horror and sci-fi name with new stories starting this summer.

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