Book Reviews

LIVING THINGS, by Munir Hachemi. Translated by Julia Sanches.First published in Spanish in 2018, “Living Things” is the debut novel by Munir Hachemi, who, we are told in the author...

Book Review Little Rot By Akwaeke EmeziRiverhead Books: 288 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent...

At Trump Tower in August 2021, journalist Ramin Setoodeh was listening to Donald Trump natter on about how much he had helped the late comedian Joan Rivers. Suddenly, pointing to...

GOD BLESS YOU, OTIS SPUNKMEYER, by Joseph Earl ThomasEarly one morning my husband asked me if I was enjoying “God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer,” the book I’d spent the last...

You’re not going to like Dr. Caroline Strange, the psychiatrist in Louisa Luna’s constantly surprising TELL ME WHO YOU ARE (MCD x FSG, 340 pp., $29), but you might admire...

SAME AS IT EVER WAS, by Claire LombardoFor a certain Gen X elder, Talking Heads were the definitive ’80s band, sparking dorm-room debates over David Byrne’s nerdy mystique, the artistic...

I once spent a hugely enjoyable hour interviewing Willie Nelson. Now, from Brian Fairbanks’s Willie, Waylon, and the Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever (Hachette), I also discover...

In the opening scene of her new memoir, “I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself,” Glynnis MacNicol is sitting on a bench in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, idly texting...

An Indian spinner always steps in weighed under gargantuan expectations. It comes with a rich legacy as twirly men have always spun webs. Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh had to...

AN ENCLOSED religious community, like all other ecosystems, generates its own tensions. The demands of silence, the dumbing-down effects of the common life, the unregulated power networks — all must...