In 'Dear Monica Lewinsky,' a woman turns to an unusual saint for support
In Julia Langbein’s new novel, a woman named Jean is in turmoil over her past. She has rediscovered a diary from 1998, when she was 17-years...
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Belle Burden on 'Strangers,' her divorce, and financial literacy for women
During the second week of the Covid lockdown, Belle Burden’s husband ended their 20-year marriage and became “someone [she] did not recogniz...
'Spies and Other Gods' is an espionage novel by a former British intelligence officer
James Wolff is the pseudonym of a former British intelligence officer who now writes espionage novels. His latest, Spies and Other Gods , fo...
'The Take' and 'The Left and the Lucky' explore peculiar friendships across age
Two new novels center vital, but unusual connections across age. In The Take , an aspiring writer named Maggie agrees to an outlandish deal...
Mikhail Zygar says the Soviet Union’s collapse was only a temporary win for democracy
Wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East are reshaping global politics. In The Dark Side of the Earth , exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Zyga...
In 'Yesteryear,' a tradwife influencer wakes up in the time period she’s fetishized
Natalie Heller Mills is a tradwife influencer with 5 million followers. She drinks raw milk, eats farm fresh eggs, and is “perfect at being...
'Infinity Machine' is a biography of an Oppenheimer-like figure in AI
Demis Hassabis says when he set up an AI lab in 2010, “no one believed in it.” The Google DeepMind co-founder and Nobel Prize winner is the...
In Maria Semple’s 'Go Gentle,' a surprise love interest upends a Stoic life
In Maria Semple’s new novel, Adora Hazzard works as a moral trainer to the tweens of a wealthy family on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. S...
Ada Limón talks forgiveness, ghosts and fertility on 'Wild Card'
This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. In 2024, then U.S. Poet Laur...
Healing through poetry in 'Light For The World To See'
This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. In 2020, Kwame Alexander was...
In his memoir, poet Raymond Antrobus writes of 'deaf gain' instead of hearing loss
This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. When Raymond Antrobus was 6...
In 'Poet Warrior', Joy Harjo uses poetry to deal with pain and heal
This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. Joy Harjo, who was the U.S....
Poet Ocean Vuong shares his grief in 'Time Is A Mother'
This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. Ocean Vuong's collection, Ti...
Brandy Norwood and Arsenio Hall's memoirs look back on careers that defined the '90s
Two figures who defined ‘90s culture are out with new memoirs. First, Brandy Norwood is a Grammy-winning singer and made history as the firs...
For her new novel about boy bands, Emma Straub took a page from New Kids on the Block
A few years ago, author Emma Straub saw a story about New Kids on the Block hosting a tropical cruise for their fans. That planted the seed...
'Labor' is a memoir by a doctor who traveled the country with a mobile OB-GYN clinic
Twenty years into her medical career, Dr. Mary Fariba Afsari, a board-certified OBGYN, had grown increasingly frustrated with the medical pr...
John Sayles on Henry Ford, Detroit and his new historical novel 'Crucible'
In the new novel Crucible , director and author John Sayles turns his attention to Henry Ford, Detroit, and automotive labor in the 1920s th...
Patrick Radden Keefe on 'London Falling' and the mystery of Zac Brettler
In November of 2019, a young man leaped into the Thames River from a London apartment building and died. After 19-year-old Zac Brettler’s de...
New children’s books center intergenerational relationships in life and the afterlife
Intergenerational relationships take center stage in two new children’s books. First, in The One About the Blackbird , a little boy learns t...
Katrina Manson on 'Project Maven' and how the U.S. is using AI in warfare
Marine Corps colonel Drew Cukor says AI will completely change the way the United States fights wars – and maybe already has. The new book P...
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