On the surface, Hanif Abdurraqib’s latest book, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension, is, yes, about ...

Gripping novels and short stories, eye-opening histories, moving memoirs, and more. These are the books that entertained and enlightened us. by Jeff VanderMeer by Noé Álvarez by Miranda July by ...

Award-winning author Dinaw Mengestu’s fourth novel, Someone Like Us, is a surreal exploration of self-discovery. Seeking solace from his floundering marriage, journalist Mamush returns to his ...

To say Wright Thompson’s latest book is about Emmett Till’s murder would be to undersell its scope and the author’s ambition.

The fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that entertained and enlightened us This project is led by Lucy Feldman and Annabel Gutterman, with writing by Judy Berman, Shannon Carlin, Eliana Dockterman ...

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Six years ago, Alexander Fuller’s 21-year-old son died in his sleep. With her moving fifth memoir, Fi: A Memoir of My Son—named in honor of her late child, whose nickname was Fi—the author sets out to ...

Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link’s debut novel, The Book of Love, is a fantasy that tackles sibling ... The undead trio (along with another mysterious spirit) must complete a series of magical tasks ...

Kathleen Hanna was barely an adult when, in 1990, she formed Bikini Kill, the punk band that would become the flagship act of the third-wave feminist riot grrrl movement. But at that young age, she ...

Much of the controversy, the author explains, stems from the pseudoscience in the popular 1973 book The Secret Life of Plants ... The Light Eaters is an enchanting read that will compel you to ...