A Discovery of Lost Pages Brings to Light a ‘Last Great Yiddish Novel’
Altie Karper had been waiting for the call for years. An editor at a Knopf imprint, she had long wanted to publish an English translation of the last novel by…
These 5 Books Might Make You a Better Friend
Emely Rumble, a therapist in New York City who brings literature into her practice, knows that reading can help people reflect on their lives. In the summer of 2024, she…
Book Review: ‘Show Don’t Tell: Stories,’ by Curtis Sittenfeld
In “The Richest Babysitter in the World,” Kit reflects upon her time spent caring for the child of a Jeff-Bezos-like character before he became a famous billionaire. In “White Women…
Book Review: “The Last Manager,” by John W. Miller
THE LAST MANAGER: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball, by John W. Miller The greatest sight in Major League Baseball during the 1970s was almost certainly this one:…
These Books Are Absolutely Unreadable. That’s the Point.
A benign quirk of humanity is that we are delighted by things designed to look like other things. A bed shaped like a swan. A sauna shaped like a garlic…
New Romance Books by Bal Khabra, Adriana Herrera and Julian Winters
Novels have always reflected technology. How we write fiction changed after the invention of photography, radio, film and email. This month we look at two romance novels that make a…
Spicy, Sparkling New Romance Novels
Novels have always reflected technology. How we write fiction changed after the invention of photography, radio, film and email. This month we look at two romance novels that make a…
Book Review: ‘The Secret Public: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream,’ by Jon Savage
THE SECRET PUBLIC: How Music Moved Queer Culture From the Margins to the Mainstream, by Jon Savage Jon Savage, the author of the epic punk history “England’s Dreaming,” returns with…
2 Books Chock-Full of Worthwhile Ideas
Dear readers, If the retail price of a book were pegged to the number of high-quality ideas it contained, the two books below would sell for downright goofy sums. And…
Opinion | A Book Club for Bewildered Democrats
One thing is even more demoralizing than President Trump’s apparent lawbreaking and kowtowing to Vladimir Putin. It’s that weeks of outrages have not significantly dented Trump’s popularity. Trump’s favorability ratings…