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Being the 6-year-old daughter of Mark Krotov, the publisher and one of the editors of the literary magazine n+1, is an all-access pass to New York City’s foreign films and contemporary art. “She’s always very, very receptive to stuff,” he said of his daughter, Daria Krotov-Clarke, whom he and his wife, Chantal Clarke, a writer, … Read more

But it was his unlucky fate to enter posterity as the subject of other people’s art and protest rather than the creator of his own. A remarkable number of the luminaries of that watchful, jittery era were shocked into action by Stewart’s killing. The artist David Wojnarowicz designed a flier for a rally at Union … Read more

Geoff Nicholson, whose darkly comic literary novels and eclectic nonfiction were full of characters defined by their obsessions — with cartography, Volkswagen Beetles, urban walking, jokes and sexual fetishes, many of which were enduring interests of Mr. Nicholson himself — died on Jan. 18 in Colchester, England, northeast of London. He was 71. His death, … Read more

By Deanna Raybourn In Raybourn’s “Killers of a Certain Age” (2022), four female assassins on a celebratory retirement cruise discovered their lives were in danger. It was a fresh and fun adventure with a steel-toed kick. Now the quartet returns in the equally delightful KILLS WELL WITH OTHERS (Berkley, 356 pp., $29). Billie, Mary Alice, … Read more

The Academy Awards always bring with them a series of firsts. First Black man to win for best costume design (Paul Tazewell). First openly trans person to be nominated for an Oscar (Karla Sofía Gascón). First Latvian film to win an Oscar (“Flow”). But one first that’s often overlooked is Merle Oberon’s. In 1936, Merle … Read more

Joan Dye Gussow, a nutritionist and educator who was often referred to as the matriarch of the “eat locally, think globally” food movement, died on Friday at her home in Piermont, NY., in Rockland County. She was 96. Her death, from congestive heart failure, was announced by Pamela A. Koch, an associate professor of nutrition … Read more

Dear readers, I’m not going to get into the various reasons you might have for wanting to go somewhere else right now — somewhere, let’s say, on the other side of an international border. The fact is that Americans have always been eager tourists and willing expatriates, game to study the histories and decode the … Read more

STAG DANCE: A Novel and Stories, by Torrey Peters In an 1817 letter to his brothers, the poet John Keats defined the concept of negative capability as “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.” This is a quintessential trait of a great writer, … Read more

AIR-BORNE: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe, by Carl Zimmer At the start of 2020, a small team of scientists tried and failed to convince public health organizations that Covid-19 was spread through the air we breathe. Why they failed, and how they ultimately won, is the subject of Carl Zimmer’s new book, … Read more

There really was a woman who photocopied her butt at a workplace in the 1980s. Curtis Sittenfeld, 49, heard about the incident when she was a girl and filed it away. Four decades later, the Great Butt Xeroxing makes an appearance in her new short story collection, “Show Don’t Tell.” She mentioned it one day … Read more