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Edwidge Danticat’s 2007 memoir, “Brother, I’m Dying,” traces her family’s journey from Haiti to the United States. Haunting the book throughout is a fear of missed chances, long-overdue payoffs and family secrets withering on the vine: a familiar anxiety when one generation passes to another too quickly. In the first chapter Danticat learns she is […]
HITLER’S LAST HOSTAGESLooted Art and the Soul of the Third ReichBy Mary M. Lane In 2012, German authorities broke into a Munich apartment belonging to a reclusive octogenarian named Cornelius Gurlitt. Inside, they found approximately 1,200 works of superlative art, by artists including Renoir, Picasso, Matisse and Degas. Gurlitt had drawn suspicion in 2010 when […]
NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE By Andrew Miller Over the years, a number of people, me included, have compared the British author Andrew Miller to Hilary Mantel. Though much less well-known, he is a very stylish, almost painterly writer, and he has her gift for historical reconstruction, for describing the past without making it […]
This is a particularly star-studded week for publishing, with books by Stephen King, Margaret Atwood and other heavy-hitters out tomorrow. Here’s what our reviewers and critics had to say about some of the biggest new titles. [ Want to keep up with the latest books news? Subscribe to the Books Briefing newsletter. ] ‘Audience of […]
CRUDO, by Olivia Laing. (Norton, $14.95.) Kathy, the central character of this slim, gutsy debut novel, is Laing herself, but also Kathy Acker, the iconoclastic writer who died in 1997. Dropping in quotes from Acker and others as she tells the story of a London-based woman’s anxious adjustment to marriage and to momentous Trump- and […]
The Game of Thrones HBO show and source George RR Martin novels all show resurrection more than once. The priests and priestesses of the God of Light can bring people back from the dead, no matter how terrible the manner of their death – and, by comparison, Daenerys only had one simple wound. Not just […]
“What Pet Should I Get?” That question was posed by one of Dr. Seuss’s posthumously published titles. Not his best work, but as usual he was onto something. For kids, the choice of pets can provoke a near-existential quandary, one that can reverberate through life. Will you be a dog person or a cat person? […]
LONDON — The literary heavyweights Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Elif Shafak all feature on the shortlist for this year’s Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards. Atwood, who won the Booker Prize in 2000, is shortlisted this year for “The Testaments,” the highly anticipated sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” which is […]
Kipling and James To the Editor: A line in Stacy Schiff’s review of Christopher Benfey’s “If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years” (Aug. 18) may give the wrong impression of William James’s attitude toward Rudyard Kipling’s chauvinism: “Kipling shaped the thought of William James, with whom he worked out the themes of ‘Captains Courageous.’” […]
Timid and naive Sansa has come a very long way. Always the most observant character, she learned from her father and Tyrion but she also learned from her enemies. Watching Cersei, Littlefinger and even Daenerys, Sansa has had a masterclass in what to do and what not to do. More than that, she is now […]