In March, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Tayari Jones’s new novel, about two motherless girls and their lifelong search for family. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor at the Book ...
The same transformative power is at work in Cooper’s latest novel, Discord, but here the lived experience of art is seen from the inside. Its protagonist is a middle-aged composer, Rebekah Rosen, who ...
If asked to picture the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), a reader is likely to imagine an old man with an enormous beard wearing a Spanish cape and black sombrero. The widely ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Every week, the critics and editors at the New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from ...
According to Peter C. Grace in “The Intelligence Intellectuals: Social Scientists and the Making of the CIA,” such bookworms did indeed play a role at the height of the Cold War—if not in saving the ...
Imagine the pressure for the next book to live up to its big sister. In “An American Marriage,” Jones’s central character, Celestial, tested by the cruelty of circumstance, infidelity, and the ...
Traveling downtown on an express subway train on Dec. 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old White engineer living in New York’s Greenwich Village, warily eyed four Black teenagers — Barry Allen, ...
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