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When Paige DeSorbo graduated from college in 2015, she scored a full-time position at a TV station in her hometown, Albany, N.Y. She’d always wanted to be an on-air personality, so the job seemed perfect, at least on paper. As her mom put it at the time, Ms. DeSorbo could work her way up to … Read more

THE FLOAT TEST, by Lynn Steger Strong Writers are the worst, am I right? As a writer, I can say this. Whether we’re following in the grand “everything is copy” tradition of Nora Ephron or quietly “borrowing” other people’s stories, we cannot be trusted. But what happens when the writer is your beloved sister, and … Read more

I will not do Shepherd the disservice of saying she was more approachable to me simply because she is a woman — although, as Macfarlane observes, she was less summit-obsessed than many of her male counterparts. But the mountains were in her blood; she was as tough and as up for (in her words) “toil” … Read more

Sometimes the scariness in a book lies in the uncertainty between what is real and what is imagined. A dark sense of dread pervades two of this month’s thriller offerings; the third is a rollicking but suspenseful story about, of all things, the illicit trade in rare birds’ eggs. by Antonio Muñoz Molina; translated by … Read more

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

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