Living as an introvert in a world that likes loud voices can feel hard. Many books promise to fix you. But you do not need fixing. The right books help…
Look. I have wasted a lot of money on self-help books. Some of them sit on my shelf. Unread. Some I read but forgot the next day. A few actually…
Have you ever pondered what life was like in 19th century America? The boulevards were full of horse carriages, towns were little, and life moved gradually. Chronicled fiction books set…
TOKYO — To explain the pressure felt by women in Japanese society, the novelist Mieko Kawakami recalls a playground prank from elementary school. The boys would run around and flip up…
Revisiting Moynihan To the Editor: In his April 26 review of Eduardo Porter’s book “American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise,” Michael Ignatieff describes Daniel Moynihan as a “liberal grandee” who…
The best exhibitions tell strong human stories, ones that we might not otherwise know. Such is the case with “Boston’s Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent” at the Isabella…
Everything Michelle Obama does will always be of interest, even if it isn’t interesting. As the first black woman to be first lady of the United States, she knows this…
1 From an early age, Nancy D’Alesandro realized her mother never had much chance to be a person. Annunciata Lombardi had always wanted more out of life. After high school, she found…
Fans of Edward Cullen, the brooding vampire hero from Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling “Twilight” series, will have something fresh to bite into this summer. Ms. Meyer announced on Monday that “Midnight Sun,”…
Once you’ve finished “Telephone,” the latest book by Percival Everett, you may be talking about it with another reader and finding that you disagree on what happened. That is intentional. “There are…
Image Credit...Nadia Hafid Play This: The Paperback Game All you need is some pulp fiction and a good imagination. By May 2, 2020 My family didn’t invent the paperback game (I don’t know who did),…
This article is part of The New York Times True Crime storytelling project. “Is this based on the Oakland County Child Killer case?” a man asked me, holding up a copy…
