The writer Nicholas Sparks, whose string of best-selling novels-turned-films includes “The Notebook,” apologized Monday for comments he made in 2013 […]
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In ‘A Sand Book,’ Ariana Reines Finds Ecstasy in Chaos
A SAND BOOKBy Ariana Reines Paul Celan starts a late poem with the entreaty: “NO MORE SAND ART, no sand […]
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Susannah Hunnewell, Publisher of The Paris Review, Dies at 52
Susannah Hunnewell, publisher of The Paris Review and a prominent member of its literary circles for three decades, died on […]
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The Speed Freak Who Transformed Running
RUNNING TO THE EDGE A Band of Misfits and the Guru Who Unlocked the Secrets of Speed By Matthew Futterman […]
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What’s a Pandemic? And What’s With James Ellroy?
Defining a Pandemic To the Editor: Carl Zimmer’s review of my book “The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, […]
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Moving to a New Place Is Hard for Kids. These Books Show How It Gets Better.
Chapter 5 of “David Copperfield” begins with the grave announcement, “I Am Sent Away From Home.” David is only 7 […]
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Marriage Is a Mess in ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’
FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLEBy Taffy Brodesser-Akner Great novels warned you: Marriage is a mess. Madame Bovary despised her stifling union. […]
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He Hears America Singing Guns N’ Roses
NOUNS & VERBSNew and Selected PoemsBy Campbell McGrath “America’s epic,” the poet Campbell McGrath writes, “is the odyssey of appetite.” […]
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Frenzy and Betrayal: Alan Shatter seeks justice in the court of public opinion in new book
Alan Shatter has a varied writing history which stretches from the steamy novel Laura: A Story You Will Never Forget […]
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Ebola, H.I.V., Spanish Flu, SARS — the 20th Century’s Deadliest Hits
THE PANDEMIC CENTURY One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris By Mark Honigsbaum 448 pp. W.W. Norton & Company. […]
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