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Melody Beattie, whose experiences as a drug addict, a chemical dependency counselor and the wife of an alcoholic informed a best-selling book about codependence that has guided countless people to shed toxic relationships, died on Feb. 27 in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. She was 76. Her daughter, Nichole Beattie, said the cause … Read more
Uri Shulevitz, a Polish-born children’s book author and illustrator who survived a harrowing childhood traversing Europe to escape the Nazis and wove those experiences into arresting works like “How I Learned Geography” and the graphic novel “Chance: Escape from the Holocaust,” died on Feb. 15 in Manhattan. He was 89. His death, in a hospital, … Read more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | How to Listen Every season brings its share of books to look forward to, and this spring is no different. On this week’s episode the host Gilbert Cruz and his colleague Joumana Khatib talk about a dozen or so titles that sound interesting in the months ahead. Books discussed … Read more
It takes a lot for me to lose patience. My first biography, “The Peabody Sisters,” about three unsung heroines of New England’s Transcendentalist movement, took two decades to research and write, yet my interest in the thousands of pages of handwritten letters and journals I — a stickler for accuracy — had to read to … Read more
GODDESS COMPLEX, by Sanjena Sathian If you’re a woman in America and you don’t want children — and if you’re honest about this when people ask — then you might be excessively familiar with the common follow-up opinions, questions, warnings. You’ll change your mind. What does your partner think? You’re wrong. You’ll regret it; once … Read more
Mr. Layton lends her gardening books, teaches her how to care for seedlings, and demonstrates how to pack delicate grapes and pears away for the winter. “Plants need limits,” he tells her. “As do people.” Nobody has seen value in her before, and she can’t quite believe it. The head gardener looks fearsome, but “behind … Read more
Fifteen years after her blockbuster novel “The Help” sparked conversation and criticism for its portrayal of the lives of Black maids in the South, Kathryn Stockett is publishing a new novel. Set in 1933 in Oxford, Miss., “The Calamity Club” centers on a group of women whose lives intersect as they struggle to get by … Read more
We bring you a true grab bag of recommended books this week, united by little besides excellence and interest. There’s a wildlife memoir and a family history and the collected diaries of a celebrated Australian writer; there’s a supremely topical book about companies doing business in modern Russia. And in fiction, there’s a new novel … Read more
In an email interview, the 2021 Nobel laureate talked about the pleasure of meeting new readers and why he writes about “unexpected kindnesses.” SCOTT HELLER What books are on your night stand? Mircea Cartarescu, “Solenoid”; Beata Umubyeyi Mairisse, “The Convoy”; Juan Gabriel Vásquez, “Retrospective.” How do you organize your books? I cluster together books by … Read more
Answer 4 Questions. Leave With a Book That Will Get You to Spring.