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Review: Salman Rushdie still at top of his powers with ‘Eleventh Hour’
Fiction: His elegant short fiction probes the shadows of mortality and loss.
November 10, 2025
Review: A shocking act at sea damns ‘The Zorg’
Nonfiction: Siddharth Kara’s account of a slave ship is one of the year’s finest books.
November 8, 2025
Review: If you loved DiCaprio’s new film, have we got a book for you
Fiction: Maestro Thomas Pynchon is back with “Shadow Ticket,” a brilliant comic novel set in Al Capone’s America.
October 2, 2025
Review: New bio offers bold take on literary giant James ‘Baldwin’
Fiction: A magisterial biography focuses on four pivotal relationships.
August 11, 2025
Review: Meet the man who tried to establish a Black state within the U.S.
Nonfiction: Caleb Gayle’s gorgeous “Black Moses” illuminates a forgotten figure from our racial past.
August 7, 2025
Like 'The Gilded Age,' 'The Club' is about art and privilege
Art historian and podcaster Jennifer Dasal explores a little-remembered enclave for female artists in 19th century France.
July 14, 2025
Review: That time a politician was caned and almost killed on the Senate floor
Nonfiction: “Charles Sumner” is an engrossing new biography that shows Congressional incivility is nothing new.
June 3, 2025
Review: A spirited biography of ‘odd,’ ‘visionary’ Paul Gauguin
Nonfiction: Radiant look at the “Wild Thing” illuminates the artistic bridge between the 19th century and modernism.
May 10, 2025
Review: A ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ journalist sheds new light on Malcolm X
Nonfiction: Mark Whitaker’s cultural history explores the legacy of a singular American life.
May 5, 2025
Review: A bold new way of looking at ‘America, América’
Nonfiction: A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian brilliantly reimagines the enduring conflict between the two Americas.
April 26, 2025
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
