In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Ian McEwan’s latest novel, about a long-lost poem, the 2014 dinner party where it was read and the future dystopia that embraced it. By MJ ...
Time for my annual roundup of the books I “reviewed” in this space in 2025. I put reviewed in air quotes, as I try to use these pieces on books as opportunities for lateral thinking about higher ...
What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature. By Dwight Garner In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “Challenge,” a funny and weirdly prescient ...