Seymour P. Lachman, a former New York State senator who was so fed up with the political shenanigans in Albany that he quit the Legislature and...
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen A new year means new books to look forward to, and 2025 already promises a bounty —...
Our recommended books this week tilt heavily toward European culture and history, with a new history of the Vikings, a group biography of the Tudor queens’...
I didn’t fully understand the limits of my body until this past June, when I fell down my fire escape and floated outside myself in a...
WE TRIED TO TELL Y’ALL: Black Twitter and the Rise of Digital Counternarratives, by Meredith D. Clark Do you remember where you were in early December...
HOW TO SLEEP AT NIGHT, by Elizabeth Harris The witty opening of Elizabeth Harris’s “How to Sleep at Night” finds Ethan Keller confessing “something terrible” to...
A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. This week’s literary...
Anita Desai has lived in Delhi and London and Boston, but when she settled, she chose the Hudson River Valley, in New York State. She first...
THE GRANDDAUGHTER, by Bernhard Schlink. Translated by Charlotte Collins. When it comes to women revealing what they really think about their families after they die, it’s...
Dear readers, When a friend forwarded some fresh ridiculous news about billionaires recently — you might have heard it’s a gangbusters time to be one —...
