Colm Tóibín’s “House of Names” tries to out-Euripides Euripides.
“The Unwomanly Face of War,” “Hunger,” “Flesh and Bone and Water,” and “Little Sister.”
Sally Rooney’s début, “Conversations with Friends,” is a bracing study of ideas. But it’s even smarter about people.
Joshua Cohen’s stylistic gifts are prodigious, but does “Moving Kings” live up to its ambitions?
“Stranger in a Strange Land,” “I Was Told to Come Alone,” “My Life with Bob,” and “Too Much and Not the Mood.”
A new oral history shows just how much of his story is up for grabs.
Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther solves crimes for Nazi Germany. Why do we like him so much?
No maestro was more revered—or more reviled. On the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, it’s time to give him a fair hearing.
Emmanuel Carrère’s “The Kingdom” explores how a tiny sect became a global religion.
“Paradise Lost,” “Abandon Me,” “Jane Welsh Carlyle and Her Victorian World,” and “Do I Make Myself Clear?”
