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…
By Denny O’Neil, a leading comic-book writer who in the 1970s acquainted readers with Batman’s tougher, urban roots and injected social issues into the joint adventures of Green Lantern and…
LONDON — Just after 10 a.m. on Monday, Cathy Slater, the owner of Dulwich Books, stood waiting to welcome her first customers into the store in months. Bookstores in England were…
In January, when Andy Hunter, the publisher of a small press, started an online bookstore that he pitched as the indie alternative to Amazon, many in the book business had…
A niece of President Trump will divulge a series of damaging stories about him in an upcoming book, the first time that the president could be forced to grapple with…
Tove Jansson’s Moomins might be Finland’s most famous exports. The author and illustrator is a cherished national icon and, for Finnish readers, her enchanting, snout-nosed characters offer not just an…
Fan at the opening of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” in 2010 in Harrisonburg, Va.Credit...Traci White/Daily News-Record, via Associated Press When J.K. Rowling was accused of transphobia about two years…
EVERYTHING IS AN EMERGENCY An O.C.D. Story in Words & Pictures By Jason Adam Katzenstein 243 pp. Harper Perennial/HarperCollins. $19.99. Image The label “O.C.D.” can get tossed into conversation a little too cavalierly at times,…
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. The writer Nicholas Rinaldi, in a poem published in 1981 titled…
On Tuesday last week, as police officers across the country deployed brutal tactics in response to protests over the killing of George Floyd, the former secretary of labor Robert Reich…
