Josh Silver’s debut novel for adults does double duty as a dark thriller and a satire of the modern publishing industry
This is a book readers should approach with caution.
Vanishing acts: Marlon James’s sprawling sixth novel examines the ways gay men are erased from society
There is little doubt that The Disappearers is a very good book.
The ghost haunting America: In his new book, Pulitzer Prize winner Kai Bird turns his attention to Roy Cohn, the architect of Donald Trump
What Bird demonstrates in his chilling and eminently readable book is the extent to which Cohn's malign influence affected the trajectory of America.
The removal of a book on the media’s coverage of Israel’s war in Gaza from an Australian library has the opposite of its intended effect
Evaluating the book's contents on the basis of its admittedly provocative title is to misunderstand what Johnson is up to.
Sleepwalking toward tech apocalypse: Investigative reporter Gil Durán exposes Silicon Valley’s far right plans for dismantling democracy
Durán insists that the tech industry's rightward swing is not something that happened recently or organically; its progenitors and adherents have been working toward this moment for decades.
“Le Samouraï, c’est moi”: Edward Chisholm uncovers the details behind an unsolved murder that swept up one of the century’s most enigmatic actors
Delon was, finally, the auteur of his own life.
An offer you can’t refuse: One of America’s leading film critics re-evaluates his beloved medium
It's not violence or morbid subject matter per se that bothers Thomson, but our collective response to this material.
L’etat, c’est lui: NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan take stock of the first year in Trump’s second presidency
Whether the volume will remain relevant once this hideous presidency finally comes to a close is anybody's guess.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 31: “The Wharf Rats” by Eric Walrond
Walrond paid particular attention to regional dialects, drawing careful distinctions between the way Bajan, Panamanian, and British Guianese characters spoke.
31 Days of Stories 2026, Day 30: Diving Board
Downey practises what fellow Argentine writer Mariana Enríquez calls "bizarro fiction."