Arts

THE NEXT GREAT MIGRATION The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move By Sonia Shah Every spring, more than 300 species of bird migrate north along traditional geographic “flyways”...

THE DRAGONS, THE GIANT, THE WOMEN A Memoir By Wayétu Moore A little girl runs outside her home in Monrovia, Liberia, during a rainstorm, thinking she hears her absent mother’s...

ORNAMENTAL By Juan Cárdenas While traveling through the mountains in Colombia, a lab employee in Juan Cárdenas’s novel “Ornamental” chances upon the hallucinatory properties of a flower used to make...

EXCITING TIMES By Naoise Dolan Already drawing comparisons to Sally Rooney’s work, “Exciting Times,” by Naoise Dolan, has many of the familiar tropes of the “millennial novel” covered: Jealousy and...

Recent visual books of interest: MIDNIGHT LA FRONTERA, by Ken Light. (TBW Books, $55.) Alongside José Ángel Navejas’s harrowing introduction about his own migration, Light’s black-and-white photos reveal the dangers...

THE DEVIANT’S WAR The Homosexual vs. the United States of America By Eric Cervini If the L.G.B.T.Q. movement had saints, a Jewish homosexual atheist scientist named Franklin Kameny would have...

BETWEEN EVERYTHING AND NOTHING The Journey of Seidu Mohammed and Razak Iyal and the Quest for Asylum By Joe Meno Even when the world seems to be at a halt,...

Michael Stuhlbarg elevates everything he’s in—a fact once again confirmed by Shirley, an excellent new biographical film about The Haunting of Hill House writer Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) from Madeline’s...

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. We’re all stuck at...

Going once, going twice! Sold! Excitement fills the air, it was all so fast, a blur really. The rush of bidding at auction in a room full of buyers is...