Part of Clark’s subtlety is the way in which the category of “what Suzanna refuses to know” remains undefined. Is it, as her grandmother would have...
She was blond and he was dark-haired; they were almost photonegatives. She looked as if she’d been in Bergman films. He was, visually, America’s Camus —...
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s challenge is focused on unfinished novels that their authors...
CHERNOBYL, LIFE, AND OTHER DISASTERS, by Yevgenia Nayberg “You have to share many things with others … but what you remember belongs to you and you...
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...
