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…
GERHARD RICHTERPainting After All By Sheena Wagstaff and Benjamin H. D. BuchlohIllustrated. 269 pp. Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University. $50. It was meant to be the final exhibition held at the…
Two years after writing their first novel together, the author James Patterson and former President Bill Clinton will work on a second one, their publishers announced on Thursday. “The President’s Daughter,”…
You don’t need an excuse to read romance, though if one helps, I won’t object. Say you want something steamy in summer or cozy in winter, or the state of…
Leonard Levitt, a journalist and author whose investigative and gossipy revelations of wrongdoing by the New York City police made him a must-read as the self-anointed conscience of Police Headquarters,…
I am, as we all are, stuck at home these days. Back in mid-March I assumed I would spend much of my time in lockdown reading — still and always…
Image Credit...Illustration by David Furst/The New York Times The Joy of Having Plans Cancel Themselves By No longer do I have to make creative excuses for the things I don’t want to do.…
Nick Kotz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who exposed health hazards in the nation’s slaughterhouses, the gamut of hunger in America and the politics behind the Pentagon’s B-1 bomber,…
If you’ve tried to read a book — or anything longer than 280 characters — lately, you’ve likely pondered the role of, and appetite for, fiction in our attention-fractured times.…
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. Ralph W. McGehee, a veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine…
