Books
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What Can Literature Teach Us About Forgiveness?
“How I’m gon keep from killing him,” says Celie, the protagonist of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel “The Color…
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The Book That Made R.J. Palacio Cry on the Subway
What books are on your night stand? “We, the Drowned,” by Carsten Jensen; “The Betrothed,” by Alessandro Manzoni; “Utopia for…
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A Languid, Atmospheric Thriller Steeped in Postwar Melancholy
THE CONTINENTAL AFFAIR, by Christine Mangan “Where large sums of money are concerned,” Agatha Christie once wisely observed, “it is…
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6 Great Heart-Thumping, Brain-Bending Young Adult Mystery Novels
Jennifer Lynn Barnes, the author of The Inheritance Games trilogy and other young adult novels, recommends some of her favorite…
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Want to Hear Michael Oher’s Version? Read His Books.
The former N.F.L. player and inspiration for “The Blind Side” just launched a legal battle with the family he once…
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Audiobook of the Week: ‘The Ghost Club’
Deciding what audiobook to listen to requires its own special calculus, related to but distinct from the factors we consider…
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A Novel Traces the Many Lives of a 19th-Century Romantic
William Boyd’s new book follows one man from childhood to death, and the globe-spanning adventures in between.
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A Rollicking Tragicomic Tale of Unending Family Drama
In Paul Murray’s new novel, “The Bee Sting,” an Irish family faces economic ruin after the 2008 financial crash. And…
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The Artist and Mystic Who Collected the World
Harry Smith lived many lives. “Cosmic Scholar,” a new biography, details his earthly ones.
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Unusual Suspects
Every child is a detective. It comes with the territory. Childhood is a constant state of trying to unravel the…