Category: Books and Literature

Read Your Way Through Istanbul

Istanbul is unfathomable: old and new, real and surreal, melancholic and absurd. Elif Shafak, one of its foremost novelists, reveals its secrets.
Eight Works to Take in After or Alongside Toni Morrison’s ‘Jazz’

The author consumed countless archival articles, essays, poems and even Sunday school programs to get a feel for the Harlem Renaissance. Here is some reading to help you do the same.
Madhur Jaffrey’s Undefinable Roles

The chef, author and actress, whose children’s book, “Seasons of Splendour,” was reissued this month, refuses to be boxed in.
Roger Welsch, ‘America’s Premier Storyteller,’ Dies at 85

Author, humorist and tractor buff, he quit academia and found fame as a correspondent from the Nebraska heartland for the CBS News program “Sunday Morning.”
How Toni Morrison Wrote Her Most Challenging Novel

‘Jazz’ is a roaming, musical book, writes the poet Morgan Parker. It reads differently than the author’s others and is said to have been her favorite.
Review: In This ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Music, Moors and Untamed Spirits

Emma Rice’s glorious stage adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel is a feat of storytelling, with a singing and dancing chorus embodying the moors.
Beyond Borders: A Deep Dive Into the Nomadic Way of Life

Anthony Sattin, the author of a new book on nomadic groups, discusses how contemporary travelers and digital nomads can learn a few things from traditional cultures.
What Happens on Page 76 of This Season’s Books?

The artist Fiza Khatri envisions new releases by John Banville, Yiyun Li and more.
Bob Dylan’s “The Philosophy of Modern Song”: An Excerpt

In his first collection of writing since “Chronicles: Volume One,” Dylan explores the lasting allure of great songs. Here are two excerpts from his new book.
Books About London That Take You Through the City

Bernardine Evaristo, whose “Girl, Woman, Other” won the Booker Prize, invites readers into London, a city whose rich literary landscape is “for everyone, not just the privileged few.”