2024-10-11 20:54:09
In a new biography, Dava Sobel focuses not just on the legendary physicist and chemist, but on the 45 women who worked in her lab.
2024-10-11 20:54:09
“I am kind of living for that moment,” says the prolific writer. “Who will betray me first?” Her new novel is “A Reason to See You Again.”
2024-10-09 21:05:57
Stephen McCauley’s novel about ex-spouses reuniting, in a sense; Jim Shepard’s noir about a fateful hit-and-run.
2024-10-09 21:05:56
Tipped off by the detective Frank Serpico, he wrote an explosive series on police corruption in New York City, sparking an investigation by the Knapp commission.
2024-10-09 21:05:55
Slim and full of obfuscations, her memoir touches on business ventures and raising her son, but barely grapples with the mysteries of her marriage.
2024-10-09 21:05:54
In “The Hidden Globe,” the journalist Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines the rise of spaces where wealthy countries and companies bend rules and regulations to their advantage.
2024-10-09 21:05:52
John Edgar Wideman’s new book connects reflections on his own life to imaginative studies of historical figures.
2024-10-09 21:05:51
An Oct. 7 survival memoir and a chronicle of theft in 1948 grapple with the history of a war-torn region.
2024-10-09 21:05:50
In “Diary of a Crisis,” Saul Friedländer takes the violence and upheaval in Israel day by day.
2024-10-09 21:05:48
A new book chronicles the last 50 years of a notorious American tabloid.
2024-10-09 21:05:46
In a new memoir, “From Here to the Great Unknown,” Elvis Presley’s daughter and granddaughter take turns exploring a messy legacy.
“Comrade Papa” is told from the perspective of two European arrivals to the West African country, nearly a century apart.
2024-10-09 21:05:43
Aaron Robertson’s grandparents had a farm in Promise Land, Tenn. In a new book, he explores the history and meaning of such utopian communities for African Americans.
2024-10-09 21:05:42
For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism.
2024-10-09 21:05:41
Reviled as much as he is lauded, Michel Houellebecq holds up a mirror to a world we would rather not see.