City on Fire by Don Winslow
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Don Winslow’s new novel features gang warfare in an endless Rhode Island winter.
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Theater Review: The Straw Chair
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The intimate Finborough Theatre stages Sue Glover’s 1988 play.
Read MoreM: Son of the Century by Antonio Scurati
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The bestselling Italian novel about Benito Mussolini gets a sterling English-language translation.
Read MoreAmerican Stutter: 2019-2021
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A series of urgent meditations on the era of Trump and COVID-19.
Read MoreThe New Science of the Enchanted Universe by Marshall Sahlins
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A new book looks at the demon-haunted worlds of many human societies.
Read MoreTheater Review: Scandaltown
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The Lyric Hammersmith stages Mike Bartlett’s scathing social comedy Scandaltown.
Read MoreStalking the Atomic City by Markiyan Kamysh
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A Ukrainian writer periodically vacations in the abandoned Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
Read MoreTheater Review: The Merchant of Venice
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A new “Merchant of Venice” at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Read MoreThe Presidency of Donald Trump, edited by Julian Zelizer
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A new anthology of historical essays attempts a deep-perspective look at Donald Trump’s first term.
Read MoreThe Universe by Paul Murdin
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A masterful new overview of life, the universe, and everything.
Read MoreTheater Review: The 47th
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The 2024 US Presidential election is the subject of Mike Bartlett’s new play.
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I Was Better Last Night by Harvey Fierstein
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The inimitable playwright and actor writes a candid, affecting memoir.
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The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is by Justin E. H. Smith
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Some philosophical ponderings about the nature of the Internet.
Read MoreGirl in Ice by Erica Ferencik
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A seemingly-impossible find in the Greenland ice sets this adventure novel in motion.
Read MoreDrawn to Nature by Simon Martin
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A celebration of the artwork that’s attended Gilbert White’s odd masterpiece for centuries.
Read MoreMario Vargas Llosa: Harsh Times and the “Fantastical Repudiation of Reality”
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The Nobel Laureate’s latest novel continues to blur the line between history and pure invention.
Read MoreThe Turning Point by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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A new book cites 1851 as a key year in the career of Charles Dickens.
Read MoreThe Social Lives of Animals by Ashley Ward
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A new book on the complexities of how nonhuman animals communicate with each other.
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