Pop Culture Happy Hour: 'Master Of None' And 'Challenger Deep'
A newly minted National Book Award winner and a new Netflix series have us fully occupied this week, but we've also got plenty making us happy.
Books
'Paris Is A Party': Responding To Tragedy, France Turns To Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway's memoir A Moveable Feast is being celebrated for what it, in turn, celebrates: Paris as an exciting place of ideas, a nexus of people who love life and the arts.
Sooty 'Lungdon' Is A Breathlessly Exciting Finale
Edward Carey wraps up his Iremonger trilogy with a bang, as the mysterious family of the title marches on its alternative version of London; it's that rare third book that sticks the landing.
National Book Awards Handed Out In New York City
The winners announced Wednesday night included Adam Johnson in fiction, Ta-Nehisi Coates in nonfiction, Robin Coste Lewis in poetry and Neal Shusterman in young people's literature.
'We, Robots' Takes Scholarly, Satirical Aim At Science
Curtis White is no enemy of science, but his new book criticizes what he sees as today's overreliance on rigid thinking and social organization, and our unquestioning optimism about technology.
Adam Johnson, Ta-Nehisi Coates Win National Book Awards
The authors won the literary prize in the fiction and nonfiction categories, respectively. Also taking home awards were Robin Coste Lewis, for her debut poetry collection, and Neal Shusterman.
'Beatlebone' Is A Fictional Lennon's Magical Mystery Tour
Kevin Barry's hallucinatory new novel imagines John Lennon in 1978, at his lowest, wandering around Ireland (with a very mysterious tour guide) in search of a private island he bought but can't find.
'Misery,' 'Misery' And 'Misery,' From Page To Screen To Stage
A new stage play finds Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf at the controls of an oddly horror-free version of the Stephen King novel.
Book Review: 'Catalog Of Unabashed Gratitude,' Ross Gay
Tess Taylor reviews Ross Gay's collection, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.
Soul-Sucking Vampires Of David Mitchell's 'Slade House' Started On Twitter
Mitchell compares tweeting the story of his latest novel to escaping a straitjacket. "I like what I had to do to circumvent [Twitter's] restrictions," he says.