PSYCHOS A Flaw In The Design by Nathan Oates A Flaw In The Design by Nathan Oates (Serpent’s Tail £16.99, 304 pp) Gil is a bitter, disappointed creative writing professor living in Vermont. He is forced to take in his 17-year-old nephew, Matthew, when the boy’s parents — Gil’s millionaire sister and her banker husband […]

THE PEOPLE’S HOSPITAL: Hope and Peril in American Medicine, by Ricardo Nuila In 1963, the Dutch writer Jan de Hartog moved to the United States to teach a course at the University of Houston and began volunteering at Jefferson Davis, a public charity hospital in the city’s mostly Black Fourth Ward. What de Hartog saw […]

The promise of a new life in Australia has long intrigued the British, and over the past 80 years millions of us have travelled to the opposite end of the planet in search of a new life or, at the very least, a new opportunity. Be they backpackers seeking a gap year adventure, or welcomed […]

Y/N, by Esther Yi “We’re more popular than Jesus,” John Lennon infamously said of the Beatles. As houses of worship shut down in droves while pop music fandom grows ever more extreme, it seems unfair anew that he got such a drubbing. “We no longer go to church once a week; we attend a stadium […]

Sitting in a small living room in rural Guatemala, recording the testimony of women whose loved ones disappeared into mass graves during the country’s civil war decades earlier, Alexa Hagerty wondered if she were doing more harm than good. The retelling made the women’s past traumas vivid and immediate again: gunfire; military raids; a pregnant […]

Are you looking for a powerful tool to help you make informed decisions about when to buy or sell stocks and commodities? If so, then you need to know about seasonal models. These models are based on the idea that certain assets tend to perform better during certain times of the year. By studying seasonal […]

KÜNSTLERS IN PARADISE, by Cathleen Schine In 19th-century English novels, there was a pattern that seemed to occur with alarming frequency: Fate — in the form of inclement weather, a twisted ankle, a touch of rheum — would strand a visitor at some neighboring estate for weeks at a time. As a teenage reader I […]

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | How to Listen The 95th Academy Awards will be presented on Sunday evening in Hollywood, with top contenders including “Tár,” “Women Talking” and “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” For readers, it’s a perfect excuse to revisit two recent books about the Oscars. On this week’s episode, the […]

In September 1941, a young Ukrainian boy kept a diary as he watched thousands of Jews marched to their deaths in the vast canyon of Babi Yar. The resulting book became the definitive account of one of the biggest massacres of the Holocaust Anatoli Kuznetsov’s book looks at horrific tragedies of the Holocaust in Ukraine […]

Biography of X, by Catherine Lacey After her wife, X — a controversial interdisciplinary artist — dies, a former reporter sets out to write her biography. X was always circumspect about the details of her life and she harmed even those closest to her. As she writes, her widow encounters information that turns everything she […]