business 
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
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
Dunthorne is a novelist and a poet, whose first novel, “Submarine” (2008), is a larky bildungsroman, and his comic tone infuses this short, unconventional history with joy and pathos. After the war, Siegfried and his wife, Lilli, followed their son, Eugen, to America, where Siegfried spent the rest of his life working on his 2,000-page … Read more
JOHN & PAUL: A Love Story in Songs, by Ian Leslie In our culture, music is most often written about in terms of sales, streams and chart positions. That is, of course, the least intelligent way to think about or talk about music. Ian Leslie’s “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs” is unconcerned … Read more
This week’s offerings include a poetry collection and a remarkably cleareyed memoir by a survivor of sexual abuse, along with a bounty of good fiction by Amity Gaige, David Szalay, Allison Epstein and others. Happy reading. — Gregory Cowles Fagin the Thief by Allison Epstein You might be surprised to learn that Oliver Twist has … Read more
In an email interview, the poet celebrated reading aloud, romance novels and bringing libraries to prisons. SCOTT HELLER What books are on your night stand? “Joyful,” by Ingrid Fetell Lee; “Don’t Read Poetry,” by Stephanie Burt; and “Figures of Speech,” by Arthur Quinn. “Joyful” is really dope — making the case for how beauty, which … Read more
“I remember that first Roxy show being mildly terrified and looking over at Mark cracking jokes,” said Skiba, who went on to record two albums with Blink. “His joy would just bring me back into the moment.” Just as the world was beginning to emerge from the pandemic, Hoppus learned he had cancer. “It got … Read more