Omar El Akkad talks about “What Strange Paradise,” and Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang talk about Facebook and “An Ugly Truth.” Subscribe: Apple Podcasts |…
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Repression, Obsession, Murder
Need a distraction? Three prickly, skin-crawling new thrillers will have you on the edge of your seat. By Sarah Lyall It’s unlikely that an art…
An Homage to Black Boyhood From the Creator of Tristan Strong
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Pierre-Antoine Louis BLACK BOY JOY17 Stories Celebrating Black BoyhoodEdited…
Filming Sharpe's Rifles was unglamorous… until Liz Hurley arrived
Life at the Sharpe end: Food poisoning, injuries, fleas, fire storms and felons – filming a hit TV series was unglamorous… until Liz Hurley turned…
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
From the beach (Miranda Cowley Heller’s “The Paper Palace,” Beck Dorey-Stein’s “Rock the Boat”) to the woods (Philip D’Anieri’s “The Appalachian Trail”) to the wonders…
New & Noteworthy, From Horse Girls to an E.R. Doctor’s View of Covid
Recent titles of note: YEAR OF PLAGUES: A Memoir of 2020, by Fred D’Aguiar. (Harper/HarperCollins, $26.99.) In a year of public health crises and widespread…
Finding the ‘Believers’ Who Will Remake a Damaged Earth
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Gretel Ehrlich BELIEVERSMaking a Life at the End of…
The 2021 Booker Prize longlist is your summer reading sorted
The 2021 Booker Prize longlist has just been announced, and it might just inspire which book you pick up next. What’s on your summer reading…
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PICTURE THIS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: LIVE IN THE HEARTLANDS by Janet Macoska (ACC Art £30) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: LIVE IN THE HEARTLANDS by Janet Macoska (ACC Art…
‘A Storm Waiting to Happen’: A Colombian Writer Watches His Home From Afar
Juan Gabriel Vásquez sees his new story collection, “Songs for the Flames,” as part of a thriving literary landscape in Colombia because, he said, “places…