Book Review: ‘Becoming Ella Fitzgerald,’ by Judith Tick Image Date Friday, December 08, 2023 - 11:05 AM Description A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.
Book Review: ‘Becoming Ella,’ by Judith Tick Image Date Friday, December 08, 2023 - 10:56 AM Description A new biography sheds light on her humble beginnings and prolific, genre-defining career.
The Best Children’s Books of 2023 Image Date Friday, December 08, 2023 - 9:42 AM Description Here are the year’s most notable picture, chapter and middle grade books, selected by our children’s books editor.
Review: New Short Stories by Jeanette Winterson, Paul Yoon and More Image Date Friday, December 08, 2023 - 8:56 AM Description Three new collections by Jeanette Winterson, Paul Yoon and Louise Kennedy.
Book Review: ‘Night Side of the River,’ by Jeanette Winterson; ‘The Hive and the Honey,’ by Paul Yoon; ‘The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac,’ by Louise Kennedy Date Friday, December 08, 2023 - 3:03 AM Description Three new collections by Jeanette Winterson, Paul Yoon and Louise Kennedy.
The Best Book Covers of 2023 Image Date Friday, December 08, 2023 - 3:00 AM Description The Book Review’s art director on the edgiest, catchiest, most creative book jackets of the year.
The Best Poetry of 2023 Image Date Friday, December 08, 2023 - 3:00 AM Description Five collections our columnist loved this year.
Hemingway, Jack London and Unabomber Typewriters Go to Auction Image Date Thursday, December 07, 2023 - 4:00 PM Description Coming to auction is a clattering collection of machines once owned by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Shirley Temple, Andy Rooney and … the Unabomber.
Jon Fosse Wants to Say the Unsayable Image Date Thursday, December 07, 2023 - 2:43 PM Description The prolific Norwegian is the rarest of recent literary prize winners: an author and playwright in thrall to the divine.
Jane Wodening, Experimental Film Star and Intrepid Writer, Dies at 87 Date Thursday, December 07, 2023 - 12:17 PM Description For 30 years she collaborated with the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, her husband, often appearing on camera. After they divorced, she lived off the grid and wrote about her life.