Books
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Pablo Picasso, the Pariah of Paris
As Annie Cohen-Solal shows in “Picasso the Foreigner,” the Spanish master was always under suspicion in France, simply for being…
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The Things They Left Behind: How the U.S. Laid Waste to Southeast Asia
George Black’s new book, “The Long Reckoning,” describes the environmental devastation of the Vietnam War.
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Real People, Reincarnated in the Pages of New Novels
One of the great attractions of historical fiction is its ability to approach the past from unexpected angles, allowing us…
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The Lonely Librarian, the Color of Melancholy, and Tangerines
An editor recommends old and new books.
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22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring
Watch for reality-bending explorations of time and space, a Western horror novel from Victor LaValle and new fiction from Han…
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19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring
New memoirs, a landmark biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a look at the woman who helped halt the rise…
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The Prophetic
I am a child of the church. In an early memory, I am 6 years old, half-asleep in the back…
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A Sculptor’s Disappearance, Narrated by Her ‘Less Beautiful’ Sister
Joyce Carol Oates’s overarching thematic obsession is violence and its ripple effects, treated brilliantly in novels like “A Book of…
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Learning to Hear What the Dead Have to Say
In “Still Life With Bones,” Alexa Hagerty recounts her training in the science of forensic exhumation at mass grave sites…
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Mona Simpson’s Fiancé Promised to Read ‘Middlemarch.’ He Never Did. Now He’s Her Ex.
What books are on your night stand? On my night stand? They’re crowded out by 15 pairs of reading glasses!…