May 2012
Hilary Mantel’s Heart of Stone
A brilliant follow-up to Wolf Hall from an author whose anger “would rip a roof off.” READ MORE »
MOST RECENT STORIES
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You Are Very Cold, and This Feels Like an Adventure
A hair-raising self-published novel of an epically bad love affair.
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Walking and Talking
Gideon Lewis-Kraus went on a pilgrimage with Tom Bissell. Only one of them wrote a book about it.
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The Critic as Memoirist
Jonathan Lethem’s new book on Talking Heads is the latest entry in an exciting new hybrid form.
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When I’m Sixty, More
Boomers grow old in country homes, and Anna Quindlen is on it.
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The Defense Never, Ever Rests
A wildly overstuffed debut about a Manhattan public defender, empanadas, girls in hats, and the perfect crime.
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The Bewildering Art of the Air Kiss
An expatriate's memoir explains how this is no longer your parents’ Paris.
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Organized Noise
A debut novel attempts to visually represent the music inside its hero’s head.
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Announcing the Return of the Audio Book Club
In June we’ll be discussing Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel.
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Richard Feynman vs. Robot Wernher von Braun
The Manhattan Projects imagines a World War II won—or maybe lost—by paranormal research.
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The Yankees From Both Sides of the Plate
Two new books paint very different pictures of the House That Ruth Built.
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Oh My, That’s Not What I Thought You Had Up There
Alex MacLean’s Up on the Roof peeks in on NYC’s most mysterious (and underutilized) spaces.
