CAVE MOUNTAIN: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks, by Benjamin Hale Benjamin Hale’s “Cave Mountain” begins as many true-crime stories do: with a missing...
JAPANESE GOTHIC, by Kylie Lee Baker In 2026, Lee Turner flees to the centuries-old wooden house his father has just purchased in Kagoshima Prefecture, in southern...
THE ROLLING STONES: The Biography, by Bob Spitz Last December, two days before Keith Richards’s 82nd birthday, it was reported that the Rolling Stones would be...
PROJECT MAVEN: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, by Katrina Manson Science-fiction authors have long fantasized about wars where machines aim...
I want to understand the roots of our political climate by Heather Ann Thompson When did white rage become normalized? This is the question that drew...
But here’s a catch with A.I. It’s easy to tell when a reference, or a comparison, or a sentence, doesn’t belong to a writer. Erudition and...
GHOST TOWN, by Tom Perrotta Upon finishing Tom Perrotta’s new novel, “Ghost Town,” I found myself agreeably haunted by the corpulent specter of Harold Bloom: the...
But only in Hahn’s book could I have compared those two translations to understand this, which is symptomatic of the very fullness of the book. Hahn...
new video loaded: Poetry Month Reading Recommendations It’s National Poetry Month! Greg Cowles, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, recommends some poetry books...
Gothic Fantasy Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity Al-Wasity’s haunting and romantic novel follows Leena Al-Sayer, a young refugee woman who can see ghosts, and St. Silas, a...