Rituals, Hacking, Truman Capote, and Nicolas Cage: the week in book deals.

Rituals, Hacking, Truman Capote, and Nicolas Cage: the week in book deals.

By Emily Temple | December 6, 2019

What Happened to Rock and Roll<br> After Altamont?

What Happened to Rock and Roll
After Altamont?

Buzz Poole on the Grateful Dead's “New Speedway Boogie,” and the True End of the Sixties

By Buzz Poole | December 6, 2019

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

The Czech Writer Remembers What It Was to
Fall in Love with Literature

By Bohumil Hrabal | December 6, 2019

The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

The Letters of Ralph Ellison: On the Making of a Literary Giant

John F. Callahan Looks at What Decades of Correspondence Can Reveal

By John F. Callahan | December 6, 2019

How Journalism Made a <br>Poet Out of Me

How Journalism Made a
Poet Out of Me

Gillian Conoley on Objectivity, Reportage, and Truth

By Gillian Conoley | December 6, 2019

Five Books You May Have Missed in November (That Will Make Good Gifts!)

Five Books You May Have Missed in November (That Will Make Good Gifts!)

From a Hawaiian-Chinese-Norwegian Modern-Day Ninja
to the Alaskan Fishing Village

By Bethanne Patrick | December 6, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Ghost-Eye
  • Trash!: A Garbageman's Story
  • As If
  • Good Company
  • Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat-And the American Revolution-Transformed Britain
  • Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America

The Unapologetic Politics
of Howard Fast

By Mark Harris | December 6, 2019

Rebecca Clarren on Gas Kickdowns, Losing Control of the Land, and the People we Love

By New Books Network | December 6, 2019

NYC schools from pre-K to eighth grade are still teaching mostly white authors.

By Corinne Segal | December 5, 2019

Julie Andrews' reading life is exactly as soothing as you think it is.

Julie Andrews' reading life is exactly as soothing as you think it is.

By Corinne Segal | December 5, 2019

A new book suggests Albert Camus was assassinated, but is speculation a good idea?

A new book suggests Albert Camus was assassinated, but is speculation a good idea?

By Aaron Robertson | December 5, 2019

Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Inès Cagnati: The Insider Who Always Felt Like an Outsider

Liesl Schillinger on the French Novelist Who Wrote
Powerfully of the Immigrant Experience

By Liesl Schillinger | December 5, 2019

On the Ambitious Beginnings of China's Influential Soong Sisters

On the Ambitious Beginnings of China's Influential Soong Sisters

Jung Chang Recounts Ei-Ling Soongs' First Journey to America

By Jung Chang | December 5, 2019

Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took<br> 30 Years to Write

Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
30 Years to Write

Caroline Scott on Realizing an Unlikely Family Dream

By Caroline Scott | December 5, 2019

A Seattle man is memorizing <em>Finnegans Wake</em> for some reason.

A Seattle man is memorizing Finnegans Wake for some reason.

By Dan Sheehan | December 4, 2019

Here's a way to help a bookseller in need.

Here's a way to help a bookseller in need.

By Jessie Gaynor | December 4, 2019

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