Books Jun 12, 2022

Director Werner Herzog finally finds his medium

The filmmaker behind “Grizzly Man” and “Fitzcarraldo” makes a late-career foray into fiction with “The Twilight World,” a new book about a real-life Japanese intelligence officer.

Lifestyle Jun 11, 2022

A new way to choose your next book

'There’s Netflix for movies. There’s Spotify for music. But there really wasn’t an equivalent discovery experience for books.'

World / Social Issues Jan 31, 2022

Book ban efforts spread across the U.S.

Challenges to books are nothing new, but according to educators, librarians and free-speech advocates, the tactics and venues where they play out are changing.

Books Jun 9, 2021

A Chinese American gunslinger challenges the whiteness of Westerns

Tom Lin’s debut novel explores the lives of Chinese Americans and immigrants who have largely been omitted from the cultural history of the West.

Books Feb 27, 2021

'The Committed': Viet Thanh Nguyen writes unreliable narrators because he is one, too

Like his Pulitzer Prize-winning debut, "The Sympathizer,” Viet Thanh Nguyen's new novel, "The Committed,” hinges on questions about individual and collective identity and memory.

World / Politics Jan 9, 2021

Simon & Schuster cancels plans for Josh Hawley’s book

Simon & Schuster said Thursday that it would cancel the publication of an upcoming book by Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, one of several members of Congress who tried to overturn the results of the presidential election. Hawley, an ally of President Donald Trump, has been ...