Altie Karper had been waiting for the call for years. An editor at a Knopf imprint, she had long wanted to publish an English translation of...
It was reported on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 that former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney was spotted in front of the Buttery Bake Shoppe on Main Street...
Novels have always reflected technology. How we write fiction changed after the invention of photography, radio, film and email. This month we look at two romance...
The science journalist and author Ed Yong likes to joke that during the first wave of Covid-19 in 2020, the impact and reach of his reporting...
For Kelsey McKinney, the author of the new book, “You Didn’t Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip,” spreading a good story occupied a...
THEORY & PRACTICE, by Michelle de Kretser In the 1980s, an intellectual revolution took hold on college campuses, spreading, this newspaper reported at the time, “like...
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen The screenwriter Peter Straughan has become adept at taking well known — and beloved —...
Good news for fans of everyone’s favorite hapless British diarist: Bridget Jones is back. The wearer of short skirts, smoker of endless cigarettes and romancer of...
Maria Teresa Horta, a Portuguese feminist writer who helped shatter her conservative country’s strictures on women, died on Feb. 4 at her home in Lisbon. She...
If you asked me to make a list of children’s book topics that have the potential to go horribly wrong, love would be right at the...