What “Hillbilly Elegy” Tells Us About J.D. Vance and the 2024 Election Image Date Monday, July 15, 2024 - 6:32 PM Description Our critic traces J.D. Vance’s shift from bootstrap memoirist to vice-presidential candidate.
3 Book Critics Dissect the 100 Best Books List Image Date Monday, July 15, 2024 - 4:38 PM Description The good news: Our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list showed surprising affection for works in translation. But where are Sally Rooney, Ayad Akhtar and others “explaining how we live now”?
In These Thrillers, Everyone Has Secrets. Big Ones. Date Monday, July 15, 2024 - 3:30 PM Description Our columnist on three riveting new reads.
What Our Broken Politics Owe to the Nazi Jurist Carl Schmitt Image Date Monday, July 15, 2024 - 1:05 PM Description A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.
Judy Belushi Pisano, Who Defended Her Husband’s Legacy, Dies at 73 Date Monday, July 15, 2024 - 12:27 PM Description She was married to John Belushi until his fatal drug overdose in 1982. She went on to celebrate his comic talent in books and a documentary.
Book Review: ‘Rat City,’ by Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden Date Monday, July 15, 2024 - 4:02 AM Description In “Rat City,” Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden explore the life, times and influence of the scientific Pied Piper, John Bumpass Calhoun.
A Family Tour of Crete and Athens Image Date Monday, July 15, 2024 - 4:00 AM Description On a family tour of Greece, the writer followed the small footsteps of some of ancient mythology’s biggest fans.
Book Review: ‘Alexander at the End of the World,’ by Rachel Kousser Image Date Sunday, July 14, 2024 - 4:00 AM Description In a new telling of the Macedonian leader’s final years, Rachel Kousser shows what happened when dreams of conquest met reality.
Book Review: ‘Smothermoss,’ by Alisa Alering Date Sunday, July 14, 2024 - 4:00 AM Description Alisa Alering’s debut novel, “Smothermoss,” is an Appalachian mystery tangled with wild magic, queer coming-of-age and sisterly bonds.
50 Years Ago, ‘Jaws’ Hit Bookstores, Capturing the Angst of a Generation Image Date Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 1:47 PM Description The novel became the beach read of the summer, with the shark at its center embodying the unease of an era of political and social upheaval.