ROME AND PERSIA: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry, by Adrian Goldsworthy PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age, by Tom Holland The Roman Empire, an enormous multiethnic state that controlled Western and Central Europe, the Near East and portions of …
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Brian Merchant’s “Blood in the Machine” compares the labor struggles of the Industrial Revolution to today’s abusive gig economy.
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The suit, filed with the Authors Guild, accuses the A.I. company of infringing on authors’ copyrights, claiming it used their books to train its ChatGPT chatbot.
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Nic Stone, the author of “Dear Martin,” “Chaos Theory” and more, recommends some of her favorite young adult books about mental health.
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In “The Fall,” Wolff predicts the collapse of Rupert Murdoch’s cable network and recounts the recent tumult there through a barrage of fuzzily sourced trash talk.
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BRIGHT YOUNG WOMEN, by Jessica Knoll At the beginning of Jessica Knoll’s third novel, “Bright Young Women,” there’s a haunting aside that hints at the rest of the book like the rustling of leaves before a hurricane: “She swung the lock lever and …
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In “Against Technoableism,” Ashley Shew argues that it’s not the individuals who need “fixing,” it’s their environment.
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Jonathan Raban’s “Father and Son” is a memoir of illness and recovery paired with a parental history.
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In “Bartleby and Me,” Gay Talese recalls ink-stained colleagues, shares trade secrets and digs through the ruins of a truly explosive Manhattan marriage.
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The second novel by the author of “The Nix” follows a young Chicago couple’s trajectory from pre-internet optimism to 21st-century ennui.
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