Books
'River of the Gods' captures the epic quest to find the source of the Nile
Writer Candice Millard tells the dramatic story of two 19th-century British explorers who spent years trekking through East Africa, enduring injury and illness in a search for the source of the Nile.
'Greenland' revives E.M. Forster — and spins a tale of racism and self-discovery
In his debut novel, Greenland, David Santos Donaldson takes this crucial but necessarily closeted relationship of E.M. Forster's and runs with it, all the way from a basement room in Brooklyn to the icy white expanses of the Greenland of the novel's title.
Maxine Hong Kingston's work is as wondrous and alive as ever in this collection
Critic at large JOHN POWERS reviews the Library of America’s new collection of Maxine Hong Kingston’s major works.
At 58, poet Diana Goetsch finally feels right in her own skin
In her new memoir, This Body I Wore, she writes about coming of age and into adulthood in an earlier era, when she didn't have the language or knowledge to understand what it meant to be trans.
Novelist Emma Straub asks life's big questions in 'This Time Tomorrow'
Straub's new novel is a time-travel fantasy about a 40-year-old woman who's tending to her ailing father — until, that is, the day she's transported to her childhood home on her 16th birthday.
These 4 novels will get your summer off to a terrific start
Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN has some suggests for light summer reading.
This forgotten women's prison helped cement Greenwich Village's queer identity
In New York City, in the 20th century, tens of thousands of women and transmasculine people were incarcerated at the so-called House of D, a brutal women's prison that opened in Greenwich Village in 1932. Author Hugh Ryan says that in many cases, the prisoners were charged with crimes related to gender-nonconforming behavior.
How behavioral threat assessment can stop mass shootings before they occur
How do we prevent the next mass shooting before it happens? That's the question Mother Jones national affairs editor Mark Follman has been researching since 2012, when a gunman killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
CNN anchor Zain Asher looks back on the tragedy that helped drive her success
Asher's father died in a car crash in Nigeria when she was 5. Afterward, her mom raised four children on her own in a crime-ridden London neighborhood. Asher's memoir is Where the Children Take Us.
Kazuo Ishiguro draws on his songwriting past to write novels about the future
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist explains how he honed his craft earlier in his career. His book, Klara and the Sun, is set in the future and has an A.I. narrator. Originally published March 17, 2021.