Books
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.
In this novel, a brilliant European jurist, an addictive little blue pill, and an elusive conspiracy yield a dazzling but sometimes exhausting exercise in literary complexity.
Book Review: The King of the Cats Returns — Seamus Heaney’s Complete Poems and the Poetry of Justice
In a monumental new gathering of his work, the Nobel laureate’s poems—of rural labor, private grief, history, and divided Northern Ireland—remain a moral force in a newly fraught moment.
In “The Disciple: A Wagnerian Tale of the Gilded Age,” the cultural historian and novelist resurrects Wagner’s American apostle—and a progressive, populist musical culture that New York has largely forgotten.
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