Books
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Read Your Way Through the San Francisco Bay Area
The Bay Area has had many lives. The Oakland novelist Leila Mottley shares books that paint a picture of the…
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Obama, More Than Dickens, Looms Over This ‘Great Expectations’
Vinson Cunningham’s impressive debut novel finds a watchful campaign aide measuring his ambitions on the trail of a magnetic presidential…
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A Weekend in the Country, Roiled by a Kidnapping
Colin Barrett’s first novel, “Wild Houses,” follows young, desperate characters in small-town Ireland.
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17 Works of Nonfiction Coming This Spring
Memoirs from Brittney Griner and Salman Rushdie, a look at pioneering Black ballerinas, a new historical account from Erik Larson…
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27 Works of Fiction Coming This Spring
Stories by Amor Towles, a sequel to Colm Toibin’s “Brooklyn,” a new thriller by Tana French and more.
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‘Huck Finn’ Is a Masterpiece. This Retelling Just Might Be, Too.
Percival Everett’s new novel amends Mark Twain’s classic tale with the enslaved sidekick, Jim, at its center.
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Gabriel García Márquez’s Last Book Is an Unsatisfying Goodbye
“Until August” is a “rediscovered” novel that the Colombian master wrote as his memory began failing.
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Feathers Fly When Visiting This ‘Henhouse’
A brief volume of Elspeth Barker’s writings shows off the late novelist’s ability to soothe, shock and find the humor…
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He Played the Victim. It Earned Him Attention, Success and a Lot of Trouble.
In Andrew Boryga’s debut novel, a young writer creates a career for himself by exaggerating, or sometimes completely manufacturing, stories…
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A Coming-of-Age Tale From the World of London High Finance
In “The Trading Game,” Gary Stevenson spills secrets of the City.