Books
Sprawling, sexually frank, and often harrowing, “The Disappearers” turns the enforced secrecy of gay life in Jamaica into richly layered fiction.
In “A Dead White,” Wendy S. Walters blends memoir and cultural history to question the ubiquity—and presumed innocence—of white paint.
In “How to Survive the End of the World,” catastrophe is only part of the story. There’s also human resilience—and the possibility of making things better.
In this ambitious Czech novel, a detective’s inquiry into an apparent suicide becomes a meditation on violence against women, historical memory, and the possibility of joy.
In “Stalin’s Apostles,” Antonia Senior dismantles the mythology of the gentleman spy, exposing the murderous loyalties behind the old school tie.
A new anthology gives long-overdue shape to an influential but unjustly forgotten chapter in twentieth-century American poetry.
Founded as a sensational tabloid with right-wing, racist sensibilities, the city’s white working-class voice tried to go upscale — and lost to Rupert Murdoch’s sleazier competitor.
An appreciation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most personal novel, in which a marriage’s collapse becomes a searching exploration of love, ambition, and the courage to begin again.
These new children’s books explore different aspects of fall—starting school, understanding yourself, and Indigenous storytelling.
Book Appreciation: “Gulliver’s Travels” at 300 — Small Men, Tech Bro Delusions
Jonathan Swift’s satire of power, flattery, and human folly feels uncomfortably at home in the age of Trump and artificial intelligence.
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