MacArthur Foundation Names 2017 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners
Cecilia A. Conrad, a managing director of the foundation and the leader of the fellows program, said the goal was to find “people on the …
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Cecilia A. Conrad, a managing director of the foundation and the leader of the fellows program, said the goal was to find “people on the …
She attended the Brearley School in Manhattan, Abbot Academy in Massachusetts and Smith College, where she received her degree in 1954. Ms. Johnson based “The …
“Little Fires Everywhere,” the latest novel by the Asian-American author Celeste Ng, takes place in the 1990s, in a Midwestern suburb that may seem like …
Also eerie is how Grant the politician came to value loyalty over ideology, and how stories of Ku Klux Klan atrocities were dismissed by Southerners …
Mr. Hone, I’m afraid I have bad news. Plath’s letters have been collected for the first time, edited by Peter K. Steinberg, an archivist specializing …
At the heart of “Turtles All the Way Down” is Aza Holmes, age 16, who suffers from terrible anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Her case sits …
“Turtles All the Way Down,” published on Tuesday, Oct. 10, is Mr. Green’s most personal book yet. Its narrator, Aza Holmes, is a 16-year-old girl …
“Snooze” is the result of this pondering. A former Jesuit priest whose high-decibel snoring caused his colleagues no small amount of torment (“I could make …
Robert Olmstead’s seventh novel is set in the reddening dusk of 1870s Indian Territory, where lives were often unmoored by any strictures of civilization, but …
We prefer books that delve into social issues over those that are purely historical. What would be a good pick to keep the conversation going? …
“A Properly Unhaunted Place” begins evocatively, in a setting that is strange and full of questions. This fifth book from William Alexander, who won a …
It’s a mistake to boil a writer down to her best lines. No one is the sum of her entries in Bartlett’s or the Goodreads.com …