Books, Arts, and Culture

To the Editors: Reading Michelle Kuo’s review of Danielle Sered’s Until We Reckon [NYR, August 20], I could not help wondering if the “restorative justice” practice...

To the Editors: While I sincerely appreciate Marcia Angell’s and Carl Elliott’s concern for the well-being of potential Covid-19 challenge trial participants [Letters, NYR, August 20],...

At CRAFT, Leesa Cross-Smith discusses her story collection, So We Can Glow, her upcoming novel, This Close to Okay, and how she uncovers a story’s beginning....

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When I think mystery, my mind initially goes to the procedurals I watched with my elders as a kid—shows like Cagney and Lacey or Murder, She...

In Laura van den Berg’s collection I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, women are adrift in Florida, Iceland, Italy, in an unnamed medium-size American city,...

Even though Halloween is a festival of the West, its spirit is not just exclusive to America. Since you can’t party like all the other years...

My son and I love reading books together, and I think the books we enjoy the most are the ones I sing to him. These come...

Some people might have a hard time with short stories because it can be hard to read different writers writing at different paces about a certain...

To buy all the Shakespeare mugs or not to buy all the Shakespeare mugs, that is the question: Whether tis nobler in the—no, okay, I’m gonna...