Children’s Books To Sleep, Perchance to Dream Four picture books from the Land of Nod. By BEN HATKE SEVERAL YEARS AGO I picked up one of those tiny, decorative journals, the kind you buy in a little bookshop when you''re on va- cation, and started using it as a dream jour- nal. The practice was a revelatory and of- ten surprising experience — trying to scribble down some of the essence of what wen…
Sex and Surrealism A new book examines the holiday escapades of a group of artists on the Cote d''Azur in 1937. By EMILY EAKIN ADY LOVES MAN RAY who loved Lee who is married to Aziz but is now with Roland who loves Picasso who loves both Dora and Marie-Thérése. Paul still loves Gala but is married to Nusch who is sleeping with Joseph — and, possibly, Man Ray and Picasso — who is officially with Ei…
Profile / Paul Yoon / By Pamela Newton Prompted by a fierce attachment to hi: OSCAR, A SWEET, lumbering 70-pound lab mix who makes his home in the Hudson Valley, is having a brush with literary fame. In March, he was the star of a ‘moving tribute in the essay collection “The Best Dog in the World.” Now he i the inspiration for a new novel, “Etn: out from Scribner this week But Oscar is much too bu…
Books glimpse behind facade of curated world Heidi Stevens BALANCING ACT Sometimes when I''m casting around for some logical explanation of how we got here — here being atime when an ex-Olym- pian finds himself facing felony charges (eventually dropped) over abotched reflecting pool job he had nothing to do with, and the president of the United States posts AI-generated images of himself as Elvis,…
GETTY IMAGES | ET) #8 i Why the Middle East is so chaotic Simon Sebag Montefiore’s vivid and monumental account explains the historical roots of the region''s permacrisis The Cauldron The Making of the Modern Middle East by Simon Sebag Montefiore Weidenfeld & Nicolson £25 pp528 Mark Urban What is it about the Middle East that draws in outsiders with their blithe self-confidence and certainty they …
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One Last Job The final installment of Colson Whitehead’ crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York. A Harlem street scene in 1951. By DWIGHT GARNER “CHERISH YOUR OLD APARTMENTS and pause for a moment when you pass them,” Colson Whitehead wrote in “The Colossus of New York” (2003), his panoramic non- fiction book about the city that never sleeps, the big uneas…
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INDEPENDENT 16 AUGUST 2026 STIHE NEW REVIEW SUNDAY’S NEWS FEATURES, INTERVIEWS, CULTURE AND TELEVISION Sunday 16 August 2026 The New Review /Feature (Y) “The first one was like giving birth... you think, I''m not doing that again’ The You Choose book series is loved by youngsters of all ages — so much so that families admit that their copies are falling apart. But author-illustrator team Pippa Goo…
Champions of Inequality A new history chronicles a ‘shadow tradition’ of anti-egalitarians who fought against Americas founding ideals. By JENNIFER SZALAI THE POSTERS BILLED it as “one of the greatest debates ever held.” On March 17, 1929, the Black sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois faced off against the white supremacist historian Lothrop Stoddard. The question under consideration: “Has the Negro the Sa…
