Dear readers, There’s a movie house here in New York that, on Sundays, shows a series of revivals appropriate for kids, complete with booster seats. My 5-year-old and I go often, and, a few months ago, went to see the 1944 musical “Meet Me in St. Louis.” We were having a lovely time watching the … Read more
LIQUID: A Love Story, by Mariam Rahmani PARADISE LOGIC, by Sophie Kemp The unnamed narrator of Mariam Rahmani’s “Liquid” — a wry, mercurial book about the horrors of being “on the market,” both in romance and in academe — is an Iranian-Indian American scholar whose work, which critiques the concept of companionate marriage, is the … Read more
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TONGUES: Volume 1, by Anders Nilsen I’ve been getting TONGUES (Pantheon, 368 pp., $35), a retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus, in the mail for years now. The artist Anders Nilsen serializes it and self-publishes each chapter, which arrive in big envelopes that often include little zines of Nilsen’s sketches and notes that illustrate … Read more
THE THINKING MACHINE: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, by Stephen Witt A challenge of writing a book on the tech industry, especially something as rapidly evolving as artificial intelligence, is that the story will be slightly out of date in the few months between the final draft being turned in and … Read more
She wrote for many ages, from picture books to young adult fiction. Her children led her to create a series of books about two pigs named Oliver and Amanda. April 4, 2025, 5:11 p.m. ET Jean Van Leeuwen, an award-winning children’s book author whose popular characters included the wholesome siblings Oliver and Amanda Pig and … Read more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen In his new novel, “Twist,” the National Book Award-winning Irish writer Colum McCann tells the story of a journalist deep at sea in more ways then one: A man adrift, he accepts a magazine assignment to write about the crews who maintain and repair the undersea … Read more
Through much of my childhood growing up in Rockland County, N.Y., I spent far more time with comic strips and comic books than with other children. The emotional landscape of Charles M. Schulz’s “Peanuts” reflected my own insecurities and loneliness. Later, when I started reading comic books, I was especially drawn to the Fantastic Four, … Read more
Sam Keen, a pop psychologist and philosopher whose best-selling book “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man” urged men to get in touch with their primal masculinity and became a touchstone of the so-called men’s movement of the 1990s, died on March 19 in Oahu, Hawaii. He was 93. His death, while on vacation, … Read more
I consider Lasch the American counterpart to Hannah Arendt, the German Jewish political philosopher whose powerful mind synthesized the pathologies of the first half of the 20th century. Lasch took the second half. If they did not explicitly converse with each other, they nevertheless found common foes in solitude and isolation. “What prepares men for … Read more