A new biography explains what the fuss was about ... Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.” For his latest book, the French writer Emmanuel Carrère sat in a Parisian courthouse ...
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Two of our recommended books this week put rock music front and center: Peter Ames Carlin’s biography of the band R.E.M., and ...
In the case of Susanna Ashton’s “A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (New Press ... Kirkpatrick called the book “a remarkable piece ...