Books
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Marjane Satrapi on Resistance in Iran: ‘A Real Revolution Is Cultural’
The author, known for her “Persepolis” series, is releasing a new illustrated book about the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, inspired…
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This Poet Flirts With Sentimentality, but Averts It With Wit
In “The Sorrow Apartments,” Andrea Cohen’s signature maneuver is a kind of twist that shifts a poem away from the…
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Parenting in a Pandemic, and Other Tales of Woe
Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.
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Hundreds of Small Presses Just Lost Their Distributor. Now What?
A nonprofit that distributed books for many of the country’s small presses has closed, and the fallout could affect the…
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A Tale of Four Troubled and Talented Sisters, Told With Irish Flair
There’s more than blarney in Caoilinn Hughes’s riotous, ambitiously structured new novel.
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When a Family’s Dysfunction Mirrors a Nation’s
“Crooked Seeds,” by Karen Jennings, is set in a drought-stricken South Africa where its fraught history is ever-present.
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Salman Rushdie Reflects on His Stabbing in a New Memoir
“Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.
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Three Daughters, Three New Memoirs About Mothers
Genevieve Kingston, Susan Lieu and Kao Kalia Yang explore the complicated lives of the women who raised them.
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He Was Blinded in One Eye, but Salman Rushdie’s Vision Is Undiminished
Last May, nine months after the knife attack that nearly killed him, Salman Rushdie made a surprise appearance at the…
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For Caleb Carr, Salvation Arrived on Little Cat’s Feet
As he struggled with writing and illness, the “Alienist” author found comfort in the feline companions he recalls in a…
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