New books this week include a Susan Orlean memoir and an Adam Johnson novel : NPR
Some weeks in the books world, a headliner or emergent theme happily suggests itself right away. This is…
This week brings a bumper harvest of brand new books
Some weeks in the books world, a headliner or emergent theme happily suggests itself right away. This is…
The Real Reason We Should All Be Cold Plunging
4 min read We gather in the early hours, headlamps bobbing across the frost, thermoses steaming beside cars.…
Authors experience every emotion when their precious work meets the world
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size After Paul Dalgarno’s first book was published, he felt flat…
Black List-Discovered ‘Then He Was Gone’ Thriller Picked Up By Crooked Lane Books For 2026 Publication; Deal Is First From 2024 Fiction Program
Exclusive: Selected off the Black List’s fiction site, crime thriller Then He Was Gone from Isabel Booth is…
This novel will soon be in the hands of cool girls everywhere
“I’m glad it’s a girl,” Daisy Buchanan says of her infant daughter in F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great…
Book Review | ‘What Nails It’ by Greil Marcus
Trying to write a book review about essays in which one of our preeminent social critics, Greil Marcus,…
Reese Witherspoon on how her new book “Gone Before Goodbye” redefines the female action hero
Reese Witherspoon is adding novelist to her résumé with “Gone Before Goodbye,” a thriller co-written with bestselling author…
We All Fell in Love With Meet Cutes on TikTok and Instagram. Now, There’s a Meet Cutes Book
And it’s filled with hope, humanity and heartfelt stories October 14, 2025 7:00 am 4 min read Share:…
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Son Recommends 5 of Her Books
“Her voice is as familiar to me as my own,” says Theo Downes-Le Guin, youngest child of hugely influential…
Jon Landau Memoir Excerpt: ‘Titanic’ Challenges, James Cameron
The following is excerpted from THE BIGGER PICTURE by Jon Landau (Hyperion Avenue, out Nov. 4). As anyone who…
Read This Pulse-Quickening Opening Scene from Oprah’s 119th Book Club Pick
From the storeroom hidden under the stairs, Ma fetched a cup of rice and a sack of eggs…