Book Review: ‘With Darkness Came Stars,’ by Audrey Flack
WITH DARKNESS CAME STARS: A Memoir, by Audrey FlackNow in her 90s, Audrey Flack still fights the urge to leap over the edge of the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda, “not to...
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Book Review: ‘Molly,’ by Blake Butler
It’s a disordered book, almost Lovecraftian at times in its airless luridness. By the end, the writing has become both tedious and odious. But the first 125 pages or so...
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Book Review: New Horror Books
YOU LIKE IT DARKER: Stories (Scribner, 502 pp., $30) is an outstanding collection from Stephen King, the master of horror, that features 12 eerie tales full of darkness, loss, danger,...
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Judith Jones, biography, ‘The Editor,’ by Sara B. Franklin review
In 2007, at the age of 83, the great book editor Judith Jones published a slim, sparkling memoir that danced over the major events of her life and publishing career,...
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‘The Second Coming’ by Garth Risk Hallberg book review
Editors don’t get much credit, but they were the literary heroes of the 20th century. Roughly speaking, that golden era — part reality, part myth — stretched from Maxwell Perkins...
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How a Self-Published Book Broke ‘All the Rules’ and Became a Best Seller
Last summer, a book changed Kohn Glay’s life.A TikTok ad had steered him to “The Shadow Work Journal,” a slim workbook that directs readers to explore hidden parts of their...
Read moreNoteworthy new books on climate and the environment
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Is it really possible to make green cement or green steel? How...
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Barbra Streisand, My Name is Barbra review: Don’t rain on this 992-page parade
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsThe rise of Barbra Streisand...
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Book Review: ‘Tove Jansson,’ by Boel Westin
The Moomins are a nature-loving, philosophical family of long-snouted, rotund white troll-creatures, born during World War II in a period when Jansson was a leading political cartoonist. Jansson found herself...
Read moreThe Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas review – fiendishly gripping | Fiction
Before the reader begins Scarlett Thomas’s fantastically gripping new novel, it’s clear that this is a story – several versions, in fact – of catastrophe, its contents page a dossier...
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