Books
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When It Comes to a Bad Marriage, Whose Account Can You Trust?
The aggrieved wife who narrates Sarah Manguso’s novel “Liars” may or may not be a reliable source about her monster…
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She Found Bounties in Small Towns, Local Talk and Everyday Life
The simple pleasures keep coming in this keenly observed collection by the Argentinian writer Hebe Uhart.
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An Undocumented Immigrant Admitted to the Elite World of Harvard
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s fiction debut, “Catalina,” brings readers into the life and struggles of a blue-collar brainiac from Ecuador.
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The Misfit Wisdom of Harry, Barry and Larry
Harry Crews, Barry Hannah and Larry Brown were part of a Southern writers’ movement that centered dissidents and outsiders. They’re…
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‘Braveheart,’ ‘Grandpa,’ ‘Trumpster’: MAGA in 7 Keywords
A partial lexicon of modern Republicanism.
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From Naples to New Orleans, Murder and Mayhem
This month’s column is all about firsts — debut authors, new series beginnings or both. I make it a point…
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Lev Grossman on the Enduring Story of King Arthur
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen You may know Lev Grossman for his best-selling Magicians trilogy of…
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They Say It’s a Woman’s World Now. The Workplace Tells a Different Story.
Three new books document obstacles to gender equality that, in the era that brought us #MeToo, Taylor Swift and the…
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Readers Have Thoughts About the ‘Best Books of the 21st Century’
They wanted to know where the poetry and the genre fiction were — and they also wanted to let us…
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‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Gets a Blockbuster Sequel
Our critic traces J.D. Vance’s shift from bootstrap memoirist to vice-presidential candidate.