In Praise of ‘The Great War and Modern Memory,’ by Paul Fussell Image Date Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 7:42 PM Description Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.
Book Review: ‘The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir,’ by Edmund White Image Date Sunday, February 16, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description Edmund White seems to hold nothing back in his raunchy, stylish, intimate new memoir, “The Loves of My Life.”
Tilted Axis Press Took a Big Risk on Translated Literature. It Paid Off. Image Date Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 3:02 AM Description The British publisher Tilted Axis specialized in innovative translated literature. It won them major awards. Now they’re coming to the U.S.
Book Review: ‘Jesus Wept,’ by Philip Shenon Image Date Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and the ideological battles that followed the Second Vatican Council.
Book Review: ‘Nesting,’ by Roisín O’Donnell Date Saturday, February 15, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description The heroine of Roisín O’Donnell’s novel “Nesting” is a young mother desperate to escape her husband’s physical and emotional control.
Book Review: ‘A Fearless Eye: The Photography of Barbara Ramos’ Image Date Friday, February 14, 2025 - 5:10 AM Description Taken in the late 1960s and early 1970s, these long hidden photographs by Barbara Ramos have just been published in “A Fearless Eye.”
Adapting the Twists and Turns of ‘Conclave’ Image Date Friday, February 14, 2025 - 3:03 AM Description How the novel became an Oscar-nominated film.
Children’s Picture Books About Wearing Eyeglasses Image Date Friday, February 14, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description A forgetful bear, a lovesick boy and, yes, George Washington share their views from the bridge.
Best Gothic Thriller Novels, According to M.L. Rio Image Date Friday, February 14, 2025 - 3:00 AM Description The author of “If We Were Villains” recommends novels that will make you shiver with delight one moment and recoil in horror the next.
Barbara Kingsolver Uses ‘Demon Copperhead’ Royalties to Build a Recovery House Image Date Thursday, February 13, 2025 - 3:33 PM Description Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to work in the region it portrayed, starting a home for women in recovery.