Book Reviews

When Daniel, one of Dublin’s top chefs, faces accusations of sexual assault, Hannah’s mind returns to the summer she spent waitressing at his high-end restaurant — the excitement of the...

“I view horror as catharsis through entertainment,” Jordan Peele writes in “Out There Screaming,” the best-selling anthology of new Black horror he edited with John Joseph Adams. “It’s a way...

IF YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME: A Memoir, by John Stamos with Daphne YoungBEING HENRY: The Fonz … and Beyond, by Henry Winkler with James KaplanWhen I worked for a...

FOREIGN BODIES: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations, by Simon SchamaThe appearance of yet another enthusiastic and erudite history from Simon Schama is an event always to be welcomed.“Foreign...

CLASS: A Memoir, by Stephanie LandThe last time we encountered Stephanie Land, the author of the best-selling “Maid,” she was a single mother who cleaned houses in the Pacific Northwest...

I can’t be the only traveller to gaze out of an airplane window, see the frothed clouds below, and reflect that this now routine astonishment was not offered to Blake,...

Contemporary fans have included the comic-book colossus Alan Moore and Siri Hustvedt, whose 2014 novel shares its title.Cavendish has also inspired at least one historical novel as well as several...

Bakis’s Annie recounts an anomalous adventure of her own, “the strangest week of my life.” In November 1918, her husband receives a mysterious invitation from the reclusive tycoon Claude Arkel,...

“The moon is more sibling than subordinate,” Boyle writes, explaining that it formed out of the same cosmic cloud of debris that made Earth. Its gravity not only stabilizes our...

REMEMBERING PEASANTS: A Personal History of a Vanished World, by Patrick JoyceIn 1970, when John Lennon wanted to denounce the bourgeoisie in his angry song “Working Class Hero,” he delivered...