The Cotton Gin, Squirrel Hill and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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Shifting Styles and Blue Moods in the Pages of a Graphic Novel
Ed Park’s latest Graphic Content column looks at new work from Matt Madden and R. Kikuo Johnson.
Mel Brooks Keeps It Very Light in ‘All About Me!’
The comedy legend responsible for “The Producers,” “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein” has written a memoir with the cheer and zip of a one-liner.
The Best Books of 2021
Editors at The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year.
The Horrors of Irish Magdalene Laundries, Revisited
Claire Keegan’s “Small Things Like These” uncovers the Catholic Church’s centuries-long conspiracy to imprison, abuse and even murder “fallen women” and their children.
Ann Patchett on ‘These Precious Days’
Patchett talks about her new essay collection, and Corey Brettschneider discusses a series of books about liberty.
In Lydia Davis’s Work, Writing and Translating Provocatively Commingle
Celebrated as both a writer of short fiction and a translator, Davis shows in her new collection, “Essays Two,” how the two practices are inextricably linked.