‘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....
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....
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...
This was the second annual National Book Awards ceremony held remotely because of the coronavirus pandemic, with Ms. Robinson recording from the Penguin Random...