The Big Easy looms large in James Lee Burke’s entertaining Dave Robicheaux series.
Pure Men: A Novel
By Mohamed Mbougar Sarr; translated by Lara Vergnaud
A Senegalese professor confronts his country’s homophobia.
An Interview with Laura Zigman
By Mary Kay Zuravleff
In her new book, the author turns a gimlet eye toward the publishing industry.
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life
By James Curtis
An exquisitely produced ode to a long-ago comic genius.
The biographer talks Tony Hillerman, cultural appropriation, and the allure of the Southwest.
Men in My Situation: A Novel
By Per Petterson; translated by Ingvild Burkey
A writer loses his family and goes in search of himself.
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
By George Saunders
The Booker Prize-winning novelist explores how some of the greats spun their magic.
The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902
By Scott D. Seligman
A little-known story of poor Jewish women uniting to demand fairly priced fleishig.
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein: A Novel
By Coco Mellors
Refusing to grow up plays better in Never Never Land than in modern-day Manhattan.
