Albert Woodfox, Survivor of 42 Years in Solitary Confinement, Dies at 75
Albert Woodfox, who spent 42 years in solitary confinement — possibly more time than any other prisoner in all of American history — yet emerged […]
Books
Review: ‘Bonsai,’ by Alejandro Zambra
BONSAI, by Alejandro Zambra. Translated by Megan McDowell. Alejandro Zambra’s “Bonsai” (translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) begins with an ending: “In the end […]
‘Mothercare’ Takes a Hard Look at What Happens When Duty Outlives Love
MOTHERCAREOn Obligation, Love, Death, and AmbivalenceBy Lynne TillmanIllustrated. 161 payments. Soft Skull. $23. Care work — tending to the sick, the very young or the […]
Eli N. Evans, Who Wrote About Jews in the American South, Dies at 85
Eli N. Evans, a courtly Carolina Tarheel who rose to the upper ranks of the New York philanthropic world, but who left his biggest mark […]
Review: In ‘The Butcher Boy,’ an Anti-Coming of Age Story
They creep in from the shadows, snorting and snickering. The singing pigs that skulk and shimmy through “The Butcher Boy,” which opened on Monday at […]
Book Review: “Delphi,” by Clare Pollard
DELPHI, by Clare Pollard Clare Pollard’s debut novel, “Delphi,” covers roughly a year in the life of a London classics professor, wife and mother who […]
Gabino Iglesias, a Writer of Noir, Explores the Texas Underworld
AUSTIN, Tex. — At the dawn of the pandemic, Gabino Iglesias had already been living paycheck to paycheck in Texas for more than a decade. […]
Will the Biggest Publisher in the United States Get Even Bigger?
When the largest publisher in the country, Penguin Random House, struck a deal in the fall of 2020 to acquire its rival Simon & Schuster, […]
Review: ‘Dead-End Memories,’ by Banana Yoshimoto
DEAD-END MEMORIES: Stories, by Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Asa Yoneda The five stories in Banana Yoshimoto’s collection “Dead-End Memories” — first published in Japan in […]
An Empathetic Account of the Complexity After Apartheid
THE INHERITORSAn Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial ReckoningBy Eve Fairbanks399 payments. Simon & Schuster. $27.99. It was nothing short of a miracle — that […]