The Albums That Transport You
Welcome. If each day of the workweek corresponds to a gear on a five-speed car, then Monday might be “starting” and Thursday might be “cruising.” Wednesday, meanwhile, would be an in-between gear, a time when you’re driving around town running errands. When weeks drag, I think about getting to Wednesday, past the revving-up portion of More...
Book Review: ‘Midnight in Washington,’ by Adam Schiff
Just as vivid, if certainly one-sided, are Schiff’s vignettes about his Republican colleagues on the Intelligence Committee. Revealing conversations and text messages, he portrays them as reasonably good-faith More...
A Sweeping New History Looks Back at 100 Years of Black Filmmaking
The first chapter of Wil Haygood’s elegant and well-made book of history, “Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World,” is titled “Movie Night at Woodrow Wilson’s White House.” The More...
John Grisham on Judges, Innocence and the Judgments He Ignores
You mentioned your work with the Innocence Project. Say a little more about what that experience has taught you about the American criminal justice system. It was not something I ever thought I’d get involved More...
New in Paperback: ‘Memorial’ and ‘Singular Sensation’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week. Source link More...
Gary Paulsen, Author of Young-Adult Adventures, Dies at 82
His 200 books, among them “Hatchet” and “Dogsong,” inspired generations with their tales of exploration, survival and the bloody reality of the natural world. Source link More...
Love’s Perils, Trauma’s Wounds: New Story Collections
THE RUIN OF EVERYTHINGBy Lara Stapleton123 pp. Paloma Press. Paper, $18. If love conquers all, in Stapleton’s second story collection it’s not clear then whether anyone wins much of anything from it. More...
Poem: [I hope when it happens]
There is a poem by Diane Seuss that begins, “Jesus wept and so did Rowena Lee,” and what follows is the kind of buildup of living and suffering and what happens as it all goes down that reminds me of how More...
He Stayed Grounded by Writing a Thriller Set in Outer Space
In his long and varied career, the Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has flown fighter jets, walked in space and orbited the earth for months while commanding the International Space Station. But until earlier More...
Book Review: ‘State of Terror,’ by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
But don’t worry too much about keeping things straight. This is a romp. The authors have a great deal of fun throwing up red herrings. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the director of national More...