Books
A new interpretation of an old fable and a newly reissued fairy tale provide delightful reading for kids — and perhaps good holiday gifts as well.
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Biographer Judith Tick is reverent about the singer without falling into hagiography: with honest scrutiny, she asserts the enduring value of Ella Fitzgerald’s achievement for generations to come.
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Melissa Broder’s new novel is as amusing as it is bewildering.
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This volume is a study of what can happen when two art forms engage in a mutually beneficial conversation.
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“All The Years Combined” is best approached as yet another voice in the ever burgeoning conversation about the evolution of the Grateful Dead.
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Ludmila Ulitskaya’s stories are fatalistic in spirit, but not morose.
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This is a brilliant book that explains, with engaging clarity, why our politics have reached their current frightening nadir.
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Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson’s New-World, nonwhite perspective claims its own stake in a history that we have come too much to associate with its imperialist heavyweights.
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Sheldon Goldberg’s engaging first novel spotlights the world of pro wrestling.
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How well “The Wizard of the Kremlin” will be received here is an interesting question, especially when the novel is evaluated in the light of Mstyslav Chernov’s visceral documentary “20 Days in Mariupol.”
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The 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll: The Institution Continues