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Review: He’s a commoner but he could be a British king in ‘The Pretender’
Fiction: Jo Harkin’s novel about a fight for the throne is a stylish, profane delight.
April 14, 2025
Review: An unnerving man changes the life of ‘Audition’ heroine
Fiction: Katie Kitamura’s new novel is a glittering work of illusion and desire.
April 7, 2025
Review: ‘The Californians’ include a painter, a film director and an art thief
Fiction: Brian Castleberry’s epic is an exuberant romp through the art of the American Century.
March 8, 2025
Review: Critic probes connection between books and depression in ‘Bibliophobia’
Nonfiction: In a vibrant yet uneven memoir, critic Sarah Chihaya offers insights throughout and an urgent message about suicide.
February 24, 2025
Looking for answers in the Israeli-Palestinian crisis
Nonfiction: New book sifts through the wreckage there.
February 17, 2025
The story behind the singalong holiday classic that shall reign forever and ever
Nonfiction: “Every Valley” traces the history of the creation of Handel’s “Messiah.”
December 12, 2024
Manchester United soccer players were among the crash victims whose tale is told in novel ‘Munichs’
Fiction: The 1958 disaster killed 23 people.
November 9, 2024
What does your car say about you? ‘The Driving Machine’ knows.
Nonfiction: An eminent architecture writer brings his singular eye to a dazzling history of car design.
October 4, 2024
Review: You might think a history of tax havens would be dull but ‘The Hidden Globe’ is ‘luminous’
Nonfiction: A brilliant expose of international tax havens reveals how the ruling class shapes our world.
October 4, 2024
Expect this history of trail-blazing Black communities to be in the hunt for big prizes
NONFICTION: “The Black Utopians” weaves dazzling memoir with little-known political history.
September 25, 2024
A collection of horror stories takes on Argentina and its (horrifying) history
FICTION: There may be a Nobel Prize in the future for its author, Mariana Enriquez.
September 10, 2024
A serial killer worms his way into many lives in ‘scalp-tingling’ novel ‘Highway Thirteen’
FICTION: Fiona McFarlane’s collection of linked stories probes lives devastated by an Australian serial killer.
August 19, 2024
