Victor LaValle’s Latest Mixes Horror With a History of the West
LONE WOMEN, by Victor LaValle Victor LaValle’s enthralling fifth novel, “Lone Women,” opens like a true western, with a scene...
Victor LaValle Likes to Stare Directly at His Deepest Fears
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Questlove Has a New Creative Pursuit: Publishing
On top of being a DJ, producer, filmmaker, drummer, director, culinary entrepreneur, member of the hip-hop band the Roots and...
Patrick French, Unsparing Biographer of V.S. Naipaul, Dies at 56
Patrick French, a historian and biographer whose books include acclaimed accounts of India’s march toward independence and the life of...
A Sumptuous Historical, a Sweet Paranormal, a Gorgeous Bit of Horror
There is nothing like the power of a well-set sentence, where every shining word is thoughtfully placed. I offer some...
Move Over, Metaverse. Here’s Something Meaner.
MEGANETS: How Digital Forces Beyond Our Control Commandeer Our Daily Lives and Inner Realities, by David B. Auerbach “Just one...
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Is Exhausted
THE NURSERY, by Szilvia Molnar “I used to be a translator and now I am a milk bar.” One of...
Three Siblings Get By With a Little Help From a Friend
COMMITMENT, by Mona Simpson If you are lucky enough to have come of age in a time when seeking treatment...
She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway.
Tom Waits went to her wedding. David Bowie recorded her work — music so significant it was credited with helping...
Noel Coward was a dismissive, spoilt genius
The richest, wittiest writer in all the world - Noel Coward was a dismissive, spoilt genius whose witheringly brilliant one-liners...