Books
The Books Briefing: The Antidote to Uncertainty
The things you can and can’t control: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The Books Briefing: Pace Yourself
The rituals of a routine life: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The Irresistible Intimacy of Normal People
The Hulu adaptation of Sally Rooney’s hit novel ushers an addictive, messily human portrayal of young love to the small screen.
The Books Briefing: A Guide to Transcending Your Daily Anxieties
Solitary struggles and personal triumphs: Your weekly guide to the best in books
You Will Never Be Forgotten Explores Grief in a Near-Future World
Mary South’s stories of loss are deft parables about the false protection of machines. They also feel particularly apt right now.
A Novelist’s Ambition to Define America
Robert Stone set out to capture the national condition in fiction, a goal that’s more relevant than ever.
The Books Briefing: What Personal Letters Reveal About Human Struggles
Dear faraway friends and lovers: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The Pre-pandemic Universe Was the Fiction
What the coronavirus outbreak reveals is not the unreality of our present moment, but the illusions it shatters.
What Alexander Calder Understood About Joy
America’s greatest sculptor gave objects a playful life of their own.
The Exquisite Pain of Reading in Quarantine
Books, precisely because they are so demanding of our attention, might be the best antidote for the psychological toll of a socially distanced life.
The Books Briefing: The Leaders Who Weathered Historical Storms
Power players and unsung heroes: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The People Who Profited Off the Trail of Tears
The deportation of Native Americans westward in the 1830s was fueled by busy bankers and unchecked avarice.
The Secret Cruelty of T. S. Eliot
Before she died, Emily Hale donated love letters she had received from the author while his wife was ill. Now public, the writings reveal his quiet duplicity.
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Daniel Mason on the Weight of History
“The American experience for many people is the very act of questioning who we are.”
Books Briefing: If Your Attention Span Is Shrinking, Read Poetry
A concentration cleanse: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The Books Briefing: Books for Feeling Better
Hopeful stories for difficult times: Your weekly guide to the best in books
The Controversial Novel That Immerses Readers in Teen Abuse
The difficulty of My Dark Vanessa lies in its adult narrator, who refuses to acknowledge her childhood trauma even as she recounts it.
Books Briefing: The World Through a Surrealist Lens
Strange worlds in strange times: Your weekly guide to the best in books
A poem for Tuesday