Books

The most important thing to know about William Shivering’s THIEVES OF WEIRDWOOD (Holt, 338 pp., $16.99; ages 8 to 12) is that it will delight and satiate those besotted with...

Outsider stories resonate strongly with children: Even the luckiest of us start life in a land of giants where doorknobs and cookie jars hover beyond reach and adults call most...

When India’s lockdown guidelines came in, people responded with collective dismay that books were not considered essential. Under normal circumstances, I would squarely be in that category of outraged people....

Subscribe: iTunes | Google Play Music | How to Listen In his new book, “Enemy of All Mankind,” Steven Johnson writes about the first global manhunt, which occurred near the...

THE LION’S DEN By Katherine St. John 353 pp. Grand Central. $28. “The Lion’s Den” is classic escapist reading, in every sense of the word. On the one hand, the...

ORNETTE COLEMAN The Territory and the Adventure By Maria Golia The letter name for a musical note was just a distraction to Ornette Coleman, the composer and multi-instrumentalist who rattled...

SABRINA & CORINA: Stories, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine. (One World, 240 pp., $17.) The distinctive Latinx voice and vision of this debut collection, a finalist for the National Book Award, emanates...

LAUGH LINES My Life Helping Funny People Be Funnier: A Cultural Memoir By Alan Zweibel A VERY PUNCHABLE FACE A Memoir By Colin Jost It’s not literally true that “Saturday...

NOTHING IS WRONG AND HERE IS WHY Essays By Alexandra Petri We all have that one friend who has the rare ability to make us laugh, not just over cocktails...

PARAKEET By Marie-Helene Bertino The protagonist of “Parakeet,” Marie-Helene Bertino’s new novel, is a 36-year-old woman, a week out from marrying a man she doesn’t love, whose dead grandmother has...