In “Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World,” by Miles J. Unger, explores the origins of the artist’s revolutionary painting of prostitutes that is credited with launching cubism.
Books
Book review: Pure writer, pure prose, pure pleasure
From a place of profound personal contentment, Christine Schutt produces extraordinary stories and themes that explore its opposite.
Book review: Pitchers, playwrights, journalism and jazz in Pittsburgh
Mark Whitaker’s telling of the city’s monumental black renaissance is magical.
Book review: Class and conflict on a Maine island in ‘We Shall Not All Sleep’ by Estep Nagy
Corrosive tensions among privileged families, espionage secrets and a pervasive sense of place permeate a compelling debut novel.
Book review: Have our tribes become more important than our country?
In ‘Political Tribes,’ Yale law professor Amy Chua explores the resurgent call of the clan and its implications for 21st-century society.
Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout wins another honor, for ‘Anything Is Possible’
The Story Prize, awarded Wednesday in New York, includes $20,000 and an engraved bowl.
Penny Vincenzi, romance writer, dies at 78
Her 17 novels and two story collections sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.
Michelle Obama memoir due out Nov. 13
The former first lady says the book, to come out a week after the 2018 midterm elections, is called ‘Becoming.’
Signings, etc., for Feb. 25
Author and historian Andrew Och will talk about his second book about the lives of the first ladies of the United States. “Unusual for Their Time: On the Road with America’s First Ladies, Volume Two,” picks up where Och’s first book left off, beginning with Edith Roosevelt and concluding with Melania Trump. Refreshments will be […]
Book review: Mistakes, lessons from a disaster in slow motion
After 17 years in Afghanistan, the U.S. faces the question of how its failure there will affect the region.