Book Reviews

Photo by Suzie Howell for the New Statesman Colm Tóibín’s Long Island opens 20 years on from Brooklyn, a novel that ends with Eilis Lacey leaving Ireland for a second...

REBEL GIRL: My Life as a Feminist Punk, by Kathleen HannaKathleen Hanna’s ability to flip — and flip off — expectations has made her one of the most riveting frontpeople...

For years when I was younger, and still dreamed that I might be a novelist instead of an editor or a critic, I kept a quote from Don DeLillo’s 1993...

We chose the 10 best romance books of 2023. See the full list.Falling in love with love has never been easier. Here are some of my favorite recent romance novels...

For the last 10 minutes, my son Noah has been walking around the house holding up a hand mirror, staring at himself, tripping over the cat, bumping into furniture. He...

CHALLENGER: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space, by Adam HigginbothamMy entry into the world was eclipsed, several days before I was born, by the...

Well-timed for this mania, Johann Hari’s “Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs” aims to help readers clarify whether they should take the plunge....

WAIT, by Gabriella BurnhamNantucket, that beautiful island off the coast of Massachusetts, is rarely associated with poverty. Gorgeous estates, wealthy men in pink shorts, slender women wearing sun hats, happy...

How do you read a book? Like most people, I still decipher the meaning of words printed on sheets of paper bound together, but you may prefer to peer at...

MOOD SWINGS, by Frankie BarnetLately, I’ve been thinking about the way language can flatten art. A novel must be blurbed and marketed, then categorized (“sad girl lit,” “tech novel,” “internet...