I was leafing through an old Terence Conran book on home décor and encountered an interesting opinion. Conran asserts that a single lamp or task
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Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs
The film studio A24 recently came out with a cookbook, “Horror Caviar,” which includes the pastry chef Natasha Pickowicz’s recipe for a white chocolate mousse
Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021
THE LOFT GENERATION: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches 1942-2011, by Edith Schloss. Edited by Mary Venturini. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) The
Penguin Random House Defends Effort to Buy Simon & Schuster
“This slender piece of the market does not exist,” Mr. Petrocelli said. “There is no objectively definable market for authors of anticipated top-selling books.” Many
The Best Poetry of 2021
This year of slow and careful re-emergence has felt, to me, like an odd one for books. There was so much abundance that it taxed
A Roving History of Mortals Considered Gods
Subin, who studied at Harvard Divinity School, clearly delights in such curious details, and “Accidental Gods” is brimming with them — though in addition to
Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry: Poems’ Review
To recite at the inauguration of a U.S. president is to occupy what must be the biggest poetry platform on earth. When Amanda Gorman took
‘The Fortune Men,’ a Novel That Remembers a Man Wrongly Sentenced to Death
There was a moment in Gary Shteyngart’s novel “Lake Success” (2018), the so-so book he wrote before this year’s excellent one, that’s stuck with me.
‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will
“Wait … you’re pulling my leg! Do you think you’re in ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind?’” the passenger asks, adding: “What kind of idiot
Mel Brooks Keeps It Very Light in ‘All About Me!’
Mel Brooks has been responsible for so much in the American comedic canon, for so long, it sometimes seems he is, if not 2,000 years