The universe of The Fragile Threads of Power is the same as that of the Darker qShade of Magic series, and fans will be able to get back there as…
Dragons Love Tacos Summary Among all the picture books ever created, this is among my favorites! FOR WHAT ENDANG? It features tacos and cute, humorous dragons—not the menacing type. Nobody…
Perusing devotees realize there's not at all like at long last getting your hands on (or getting a Libby warning for) a book you've been holding up months (or years)…
On limited outings in my Brooklyn neighborhood, children I see riding atop their dads’ shoulders or lounging in strollers are all wearing masks. Without having much to compare it to,…
CROOKED HALLELUJAHBy Kelli Jo Ford There’s a scene in Kelli Jo Ford’s first novel that tugged at me long after I finished her book. In it, a depressed, defeated man stands in…
THE RULES OF CONTAGIONWhy Things Spread — and Why They StopBy Adam Kucharski By now, most readers have surely heard of the science of disease modeling or the “R-naught,” the mathematical…
In the prologue of “Too Much and Never Enough,” Mary Trump writes: “The media failed to notice that not one member of Donald’s family, apart from his children, his son-in-law…
Recent releases: SEX AND LIES: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World, by Leila Slimani. (Penguin, paper, $17.) Slimani, the French Moroccan novelist behind “The Perfect Nanny” and…
Groundbreaking To the Editor: Claire Messud’s May 31 review of Maggie Doherty’s “The Equivalents” made me eager to read about the origins of the Bunting Institute and the amazing women in its…
THE NEED, by Helen Phillips. (Simon & Schuster, 272 pp., $17.) With “forensic precision” and “nods to both sci-fi and horror” — according to our reviewer, Harriet Lane — this…
From “I Dream of a Journey”Credit...Akiko Miyakoshi I DREAM OF A JOURNEY Written and illustrated by Akiko Miyakoshi. A plaque, next to rows of glimmering keys, reads “Solitude Hotel.” It is late in…
Irving Howe wrote for the Book Review about American literature — “moving from visions to problems, from ecstasy to trouble, from self to society” — on July 4, 1976. “Land…
