Barack Obama in 2004.
This study of Obama, by the editor of The New Yorker, has many additions and corrections to make to our reading of “Dreams From My Father.”
Norris Church Mailer describes her life with Norman, and shows what kind of woman it took to subdue him, at least partly.
In his first novel, the renowned biologist E. O. Wilson writes what he knows: an Alabama boy comes of age in the thrall of ants, nature and solitude, determined to save what he loves.
Ian Buruma analyzes the tension between religion and democracy in Europe, America, Japan and China.
How the communion of writer and translator bridges generations, cultures and languages.
A novel about a broken mathematician and a scarred skier who are whole only when they are alone.
Jon McGregor’s experimental third novel probes the consequences of addiction.
The first collection of Charles Bernstein’s poems not published by a university or independent press marks a consummate outsider’s admittance to the mainstream.
Novels by Anastasia Hobbet, Lori Lansens, Michael Jaime-Becerra and Alex Berenson.
Two new picture books versions of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale “Thumbelina.”
At 17, an orphan seeks his way through a tangle of love, loss and retribution.
Look past Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos to the forgotten Bob Brown and his 1930s reading machine.
Mystery novels by Benjamin Black (a k a John Banville), Barbara Cleverly, Martha Grimes and Jacqueline Winspear.
Featuring David Remnick on his new biography of Barack Obama; and Norris Church Mailer on her memoir, “A Ticket to the Circus,” and her life with Norman Mailer.
Barbara Kingsolver is a trained biologist who made the jump from science to fiction writing.
In “Obama Zombies,” the conservative writer Jason Mattera advises how to fend off the legions of glassy-eyed young Obamites.
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