Author says some ‘Wild Things’ about children’s literature | Book review
Bruce Handy, author of “Wild Things: The Joy of Reading Children’s Literature as an Adult,” takes an opinionated, biography-with-zingers approach to the Kid Lit pantheon:...
A fateful literary meeting: Raymond Carver and Haruki Murakami
The two writers met in person only once, but it provided a lifetime of inspiration; most recently shown in Murakami’s new collection “Men Without Women.”
Joan Didion’s ‘reporter’s notebook’ of a road trip: ‘South and West’ | Book review
The author of “The Year of Magical Thinking” publishes a slim, fascinating volume documenting a reporting trip 47 years ago.
‘A Really Good Day’: a drop of LSD keeps the blues away | Book review
In “A Really Good Day,” author Ayelet Waldman chronicles her effort to deal with her irritability, anger and mood swings with microdoses of LSD. She...
‘Shelter in Place’: a troubled man with a troubled mother | Book review
In Alexander Maksik’s new novel, “Shelter in Place,” a young man adrift in the Pacific Northwest recounts what happens after his mother committed a terrible...