8 New Books Coming in December
‘The Ballerinas,’ by Rachel Kapelke-Dale (St. Martin’s, Dec. 7)In this debut thriller, three dancers try to conceal their secrets at the Paris Opera Ballet....
‘In the Eye of the Wild,’ a Haunting Memoir About Life After a Bear Attack
The bear tore off part of Martin’s jaw and two of her teeth; Russian doctors installed a metal plate in her face, which French...
Book Review: ‘Tinderbox,’ by James Andrew Miller
There’s enough animosity, jealousy, score-settling and killing gossip in “Tinderbox,” James Andrew Miller’s mountainous new oral history of HBO, to fill an Elizabethan drama....
New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’
They are a spiky, ambitious lot. We encounter the poet John Ashbery, to whom Schloss complained about being called “semiabstract” by a critic. “‘Isn’t...
2021 National Book Award Winners: Full List
This was the second annual National Book Awards ceremony held remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic, with Ms. Robinson recording from the Penguin Random...