‘How Punctuation Remade the World’ author explains the unexpected history of those little marks
Pity the period. And the comma and the semicolon too. Punctuation is the sturdy armature of written language,…
Dan Werb on ‘Our Wild Familiars,’ his new book about animals in cities
In 2007, for the first time in recorded history, more humans were living in urban spaces than rural…
James Ellroy on ‘Red Sheet,’ his new book
For 45 years, in his novels, short stories and essays, James Ellroy has been creating the definitive under-history…
Gertrude Stein finally gets the look she deserves in this new book
In Deborah Levy’s new novel “My Year in Paris With Gertrude Stein,” the celebrated British author turns her…
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida on ‘Three Stories of Forgetting’
What do fallen empires leave behind? Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s new work of fiction attempts to answer that…
Megha Majumdar discusses her climate catastrophe book
In Megha Majumdar’s new novel “A Guardian and a Thief,” a cataclysmic climate event in the Bengali city…