Category: Books and Literature

R.O. Kwon’s Jade Rings

The rings, passed down by her mother, remind the author of the connection she has to her ancestors.
Fans of Charli XCX’s New Album Embrace ‘Brat Summer’

Fans of the new Charli XCX album count themselves among them. But the term “brat” has cropped up elsewhere in culture lately, and it has subtly different meanings.
An A.I.-Powered App Helps Readers Make Sense of Classic Texts

Margaret Atwood and John Banville are among the authors who have sold their voices and commentary to an app that aims to bring canonical texts to life with the latest tech.
Inside High Valley Books, the Fashion Bookstore in a Brooklyn Apartment

Bill Hall, the proprietor, has assembled a vast collection of hard-to-find fashion books and magazines coveted by designers and influencers.
Strasbourg for Book Lovers

Bibliophiles will find plenty of centuries-old tomes, graphic novels, modern works and more in this French city, which also happens to be this year’s UNESCO World Book Capital.
The Women Rethinking Marriage and Family Life Because of Miranda July’s ‘All Fours’

The author’s new novel, “All Fours,” has spurred a whisper network of women fantasizing about desire and freedom.
Read Your Way Through New Orleans

New Orleans is a thriving hub for festivals, music and Creole cuisine. Here, the novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin shares books that capture its many cultural influences.
Book Review: ‘When Women Ran Fifth Avenue,’ by Julie Satow

In “When Women Ran Fifth Avenue,” Julie Satow celebrates the savvy leaders who made Bonwit, Bendel’s and Lord & Taylor into retail meccas of their moment.
How Yu & Me, a Popular Chinatown Bookstore, Rebuilt After a Fire

A fire left Lucy Yu’s literary hub in Chinatown gutted. She was determined to rebuild it.
10 Artists on Living and Creating Through Grief

Jesmyn Ward, Bridget Everett, Sigrid Nunez and seven other writers, actors, musicians and filmmakers talk to us about grief — how they’ve experienced it and how it has changed them.
Shirley Conran, Author Best Known for the Steamy ‘Lace,’ Dies at 91

A divorced single mother, she started out to write a sex guide for schoolgirls and ended up with a tale of female autonomy that became a best-selling novel.
How I Met My Father

“What took you so long?” he said.