Book Review The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir By Griffin DunnePenguin Press: 400 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from...
Read moreAs proposed national rallying cries go, perhaps this one lacks swagger. But its modesty is deliberate, as the economist and Observer columnist Torsten Bell’s surprisingly hopeful new guide to halting...
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JERUSALEM must be one of the most written-about cities in non-fiction. I expect that Rome takes the top prize for that. Numerous new books about Jerusalem are published every year....
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“The writer is often faced with two choices,” the late Nigerian author Chinua Achebe argued, “turn away from the reality of life’s intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling...
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Let the word go forth: Zach Williams’s “Beautiful Days” is one of 2024’s superlative debuts, a glorious creepfest reminiscent of speculative collections by Carmen Maria Machado, Mariana Enríquez and other...
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In 1996, novelist Jill Ciment published a memoir called Half a Life. It is primarily about her hardscrabble childhood in California's San Fernando Valley, dominated by her difficult, volatile father,...
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In the past five years, David Sedaris has published seven books — two essay collections; an anthology; two diaries, both more than 500 pages long; a visual compendium to the...
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In The Road to Freedom, Joseph Stiglitz considers the relationship between capitalism and freedom, evaluating democracy, economics and what constitutes a good society. According to Danny Dorling, the book’s lack of a coherent structure and...
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The title of the book, “Malas,” is a play on the pervasive “bad woman” stereotype, which Lulu tells us is her father’s great fear. “If he’s not watching out, I...
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Last summer, my wife and I took our kids to Reader’s World, a wonderful bookstore in Holland, Mich. It was one of the last stops on our Lake Michigan vacation....
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