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“New York is a city of things unnoticed,” begins the essay that opens “A Town Without Time,” a new collection of Gay Talese’s New York writings. Talese then proceeds to list, with deceptive economy, the things he has noticed:...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more.100 Books to Look...

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Neil Gaiman’s Alleged Victims Speak Out It’s been six months since news broke that two women were accusing author Neil Gaiman...

Perhaps as part of the subterfuge about her age, she often erased this chapter from her life story, preferring to identify with Oklahoma, where the family moved when she was 24, her mother died of flu and the grieving...

Beautiful UglyBy Alice FeeneyObsession, romantic and otherwise, is the dominant theme of this month’s thrillers, whose characters often live on the edge of madness. Let’s start with Feeney’s BEAUTIFUL UGLY (Flatiron, 295 pp., $28.99). Feeney is known for pulling...

The trailer for Netflix’s ultraviolent series “American Primeval” promises to show “America like never before.” But as fans of frontier stories know, there’s really nothing new under the Western sun.The series, which premiered on Thursday, is more viscerally brutal...

A seemingly unremarkable old woman unspools a life story that had her hobnobbing with New York bohemians in Norton’s fifth novel. Despite coming up in comedy, in an email interview he admitted that “very little makes me laugh.” SCOTT...

Jenna Bush Hager, who became one of the most influential figures in publishing when she launched a book club on the “Today” show nearly six years ago, said on Wednesday that she now plans to do more than just...

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi, translated by Jonathan WrightThe story unfolds in U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Iraq. Bombs rock the streets, houses are left abandoned, the younger generation flees war to live in places like Australia, including the children of...

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. If these mystery, thrillers, and true crime books are any indication, publishing is starting 2025 with a bang! As usual, I aimed to...