Galway Kinnell, Poet Who Followed His Own Path, Dies at 87
By DANIEL LEWIS
Mr. Kinnell won a Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award for works that pushed deep into the heart of human experience.
“Respect” is David Ritz’s latest biography, this one about the life of Aretha Franklin.
Mr. Kinnell won a Pulitzer Prize and an American Book Award for works that pushed deep into the heart of human experience.
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In Michel Faber’s novel “The Book of Strange New Things,” a missionary dispatched to a faraway planet gets desperate missives from his wife.
Emmanuel Carrère’s new book profiles Edward Limonov, the bad boy of Soviet dissident writers.
“Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” is John Lahr’s thick volume on the playwright.
Martha Weinman Lear returns to the territory she covered in “Heartsounds,” but this is not a sequel so much as a rueful epilogue, a brief account of her own recent skirmish with heart disease.
Ahead of the American publication of his latest work, “The Book of Strange New Things,” Michel Faber discusses it and why it will be his last novel.
In a country that has long been ill at ease with its hard-living son, Thomas’s granddaughter is trying to refocus public attention on the poet’s work.
In “At Home in Exile,” Alan Wolfe argues that the Diaspora has fostered in Jews a commitment to defend the rights of other groups and to live by universal values wherever they may be.
“The Secret History of Wonder Woman,” by Jill Lepore, is fundamentally a biography of Wonder Woman’s larger-than-life creator, William Moulton Marston.
The 92nd Street Y is marking the centennial of Dylan Thomas’s birth with an exhibition and a revival of his 1953 radio play “Under Milk Wood” this weekend.
Executives said the bookstore in the Bay Plaza in Co-op City will remain open for at least two more years.
David Quammen’s “Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus” sets aside the hyperbole yet still unnerves.
The British writer John Lanchester demystifies the financial world in “How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say — And What It Really Means.”
Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti reinvent “Hansel and Gretel.”
“After,” Anna Todd’s wildly popular web novel based on Harry Styles of the boy band One Direction, is being published as a book.
At a time when marijuana laws are loosening in the United States, High Times magazine is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a hefty book.
Samuel Hynes’s new book, “The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War,” was inspired by his life of flying, most notably as an airman in World War II.
Professor Mazrui, who had taught since 1989 at Binghamton University, set off national criticism with his 1986 television documentary, “The Africans: A Triple Heritage.”
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has written a memoir that also touches on the general state of American politics today.
“Michael Jackson’s Dangerous” looks at an album up close, while “The Michael Jacksons” examines Jackson impersonators.
In 15 years of research on Nelson A. Rockefeller, Richard Norton Smith says he came to see him as an impetuous dreamer who also wanted circumstances very much under his control.
Richard Flanagan, who was honored for “The Narrow Road to the Deep North,” is the third Australian to win the prize.
Reviews of new thrillers, including Tawni O’Dell’s “One of Us,” Sergey Kuznetsov’s “Butterfly Skin” and more.
New books by Robert Jackson Bennett, Peyton Marshall and more.
New mysteries by Karin Fossum, Jens Lapidus and more.
Reviews of Anne Rice’s “Prince Lestat” and several novels about middle-class domestic anxiety.
The author, most recently, of “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” is a great fan of Dr. Watson: “He is intelligent, observant and faithful, the way we want all doctors to be.”
In Edward St. Aubyn’s novel, a large cast of seekers cross paths at Esalen.
James Risen argues that America’s open society has been a casualty of the war on terror.
Marlon James’s novel examines complicated politics and the growth of gang violence in Jamaica.
Lucy Worsley examines the creation of British crime fiction and the growing fascination with foul play.
A 500-year history of apparitions, poltergeists, séances and our longing to believe in the paranormal.
Folk and fairy tales are loosely reimagined and rendered with scrupulous realism.
An 1816 “ghost story” contest had lasting literary consequences.
Keats, Wordsworth and Lamb attend a famous dinner party.
Must the revolutionary artist ignore the basic laws of decency that govern our world in order to transform that world?
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Zoë Heller and Anna Holmes discuss the havoc books can wreak on relationships.
Four reviewers share their memories of reading creepy books.
New books by Chuck Palahniuk, Merritt Tierce, David Ohle and Fred Venturini.
Francine Prose and Ayana Mathis discuss their scariest reading experiences.
New books that circumvent established norms and smash accepted verities to smithereens.
This week, James Risen discusses “Pay Any Price”; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Lucy Worsley talks about “The Art of the English Murder”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
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Leslie H. Gelb reviews Leon Panetta’s memoir, which recounts a career in public service, including stints as White House chief of staff, director of the C.I.A. and defense secretary.
A historian of science imagines what future generations will make of our current handling of climate change.
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