MIAMI — For much of Game 3 of the N.B.A.’s Eastern Conference finals on Sunday, Jimmy Butler did something he does not often do: He played...
WOMEN WE BURIED, WOMEN WE BURNED: A Memoir, by Rachel Louise Snyder Before Rachel Louise Snyder settled on the subject of her previous book, “No Visible...
“Van Halen, Faster Pussycat, Ratt, W.A.S.P., Poison, Whitesnake, Twisted Sister, the Crüe — Dionysians all,” Wray writes. “Slayer, Death Angel, Deicide, Megadeth, Anthrax — team chaos,...
GENEALOGY OF A MURDER: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night, by Lisa Belkin Alvin Tarlov first met Joseph DeSalvo in the prison hospital at the...
In a supplement to a new edition of “American Born Chinese,” Yang observes that Asian Americans “sometimes feel like we are guests in America,” treated as...
BRAVE THE WILD RIVER: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon, by Melissa L. Sevigny Let’s start this story...
CLEOPATRA’S DAUGHTER: From Roman Prisoner to African Queen, by Jane Draycott Not many can boast of knowing that Cleopatra had a daughter, Cleopatra Selene. There’s good...
In Water Valley, J.H., a former railroad brakeman, had leveraged his position with the railroad (rare for a Black man at the time) and an ability...
“Time Shelter,” a novel in which a wave of nostalgia sweeps Europe and entire countries consider living in past eras, on Tuesday won the International Booker Prize,...
Even in medieval times, recycling was in vogue: Bits of parchment salvaged from older handwritten manuscripts were often used to reinforce other books. Using CT scanning,...