Fiction | Nonfiction We’re more than a third of the way through 2025 and we at The Book Review have already written about hundreds of books. Some of those titles are good. Some are very good. And then there are the following. We suspect that some (though certainly not all) …
Nineteen books were recognized as winners or finalists for the Pulitzer Prize on Monday, in the categories of memoir, poetry, general nonfiction, fiction, biography and history, which had two winners. Fiction WinnerJames, by Percival Everett Everett’s reimagining of “Huckleberry Finn” is a subversive homage to Mark Twain’s classic novel, as …
Andrew Edlin Gallery has been operating since 2001 in New York City, with a particular specialty in self-taught makers. One, for instance, the American outsider artist Henry Darger (1892-1973), has works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago; Andrew Edlin has …
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The video is short — just 19 seconds — and not particularly compelling. A viewer would be forgiven for clicking away before it ends. The grainy footage, uploaded on April 23, 2005, of a man standing in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo — “All right, …
On a brisk morning a few weeks ago on the roof terrace of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the artist Jennie C. Jones was previewing “Ensemble,” her suite of elegant, angular sculptural works for the museum’s annual Roof Garden commission, which opens on Tuesday. Three sculptures glistened in the sunlight, …
Who exactly is in charge here? Is it the strutting general or his self-effacing ensign? The man celebrated for his “free and open nature” or the sociopath who keeps stockpiling secrets? That question has been occupying the minds of theatergoers and readers since Shakespeare’s “Othello” was first performed in London …
When the New York Liberty were courting Breanna Stewart during the free agency period before the 2023 season, Ms. Stewart had many conversations with Clara Wu Tsai, the owner of the team. They talked about the future of the W.N.B.A., and each shared her own ambitions. At the time, the …
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie It’s been years since Adichie, the author of “Americanah,” released a work of fiction; now she returns with the stories of four women navigating life during the pandemic. Centered on Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel writer based in the United States, the story also swivels to her …
To accompany this article, Adam Bradley created a playlist of the songs that define R&B’s new era. THE R&B SINGER-SONGWRITER Muni Long has a voice that people say could sing the dictionary and they’d still listen. In 2007, as a teen growing up in Gifford, Fla., she put that claim …