Books Archive

The Goldfinch movie flopped. But its problems go back to its Pulitzer-winning source material.

This sweetly romantic YA romp isn’t as subversive as its predecessor. It’s still enormous fun.

Coates’s debut novel has exquisite sentences and ideas, but the rest is a mess.

The Year of the Monkey is about 2016, and the intertwining of personal and national grief.

And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.

And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.

Tamsyn Muir’s debut novel is sharp, unsettling, and so much fun.

And the rest of the week’s best writing on books and related subjects.

Mattis shunned the press as Pentagon chief. He loves it now that he’s selling a book.

The online retailer broke a giant publishing embargo, but it probably won’t face consequences.

The Testaments is enormous fun to read. But it’s not great the way The Handmaid’s Tale is.

How reading Sally Rooney became a status symbol.