Books
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Audiobook of the Week: ‘The Ghost Club’
Deciding what audiobook to listen to requires its own special calculus, related to but distinct from the factors we consider…
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A Novel Traces the Many Lives of a 19th-Century Romantic
William Boyd’s new book follows one man from childhood to death, and the globe-spanning adventures in between.
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A Rollicking Tragicomic Tale of Unending Family Drama
In Paul Murray’s new novel, “The Bee Sting,” an Irish family faces economic ruin after the 2008 financial crash. And…
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The Artist and Mystic Who Collected the World
Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones.
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Unusual Suspects
Every child is a detective. It comes with the territory. Childhood is a constant state of trying to unravel the…
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Purging Books, Making Art and Ruling Chicago
An editor recommends two escapist biographies.
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An Eccentric Victorian, His Book and the Giant Pink Pastry of a House He Inspired
Has any man in history loved anything as much as Orson Squire Fowler loved the octagon? Fowler, born in Cohocton,…
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Read Your Way Through Appalachia
Barbara Kingsolver, whose Pulitzer-winning “Demon Copperhead” offered a variegated portrait of the region, guides readers through a literary landscape “as…
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What Does It Mean to Be a Witness?
In his new story collection, Jamel Brinkley investigates the impact of seeing and being seen.
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Obsessed with the Ocean, Susan Casey Takes the Plunge
Susan Casey has long been enchanted by the deep ocean. For her book “The Underworld,” she finally got to visit…