There’s a particular kind of book that only gets made once an artist has earned the right to look back over the whole span of a career and say, essentially, look what I built. “Star of the Show,” Dolly Parton’s new collaboration with music journalist Tom Roland, is exactly that
Every few years a book arrives that tries to give a name to the vague unease so many people already feel about where technology is taking public life. Jill Lepore’s “The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State” is this cycle’s entry, and unlike most of the genre, it comes
Few sitting U.S. senators moonlight as biographers, and fewer still choose a subject as quietly polarizing as a sitting Supreme Court justice. That’s exactly the gamble Ted Cruz makes with “Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas,” a book that trades campaign-trail rhetoric for something closer to hagiography-with-footnotes, built on hours
A confession is supposed to close a case, not reopen one, but that’s exactly what happens when the man who confessed to killing a Seaside, Washington teenager twenty-five years ago suddenly takes it back. Jennifer Hillier’s “Heart of Glass” starts from that single, destabilizing premise and uses it to pull
An immortal warrior bound to a sword who would honestly rather you just let him die is not the traveling companion most people would choose, but Learned Edmund never gets much of a choice in the matter. T. Kingfisher’s “Daggerbound,” the second book in her Swordheart series, picks up the
A severed finger in a high school principal’s mail is not a subtle way to reopen old wounds, but subtlety was never really the point of Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie’s corner of Pirriwee Public in the first place. Ten years after the events that made “Big Little Lies”
THE VIRA BRIEFING September 3, 2026 Today’s Lead The Unknown by Riley Sager Riley Sager kicks off fall’s thriller season with a gothic puzzle box: five mediums vanish from a Vermont commune in 1926, leaving only empty dresses and a diary behind. A century later, an actress cast to play
A century-old disappearance, a haunted island, and a leading lady who might be walking straight into the same fate as the woman she’s playing — Riley Sager’s latest thriller wastes no time announcing itself as this fall’s must-read gothic chiller. In 1926, five mediums vanished from the isolated commune of
Ten years ago, “Pardon My Take” was two guys yelling about football into microphones for a Barstool Sports audience that hadn’t fully materialized yet. Today it’s arguably the biggest sports podcast in the country, and “Pardon My Book” is its hosts cashing in a decade of chaos for something you
Somewhere between the sourdough starters and the linen aprons of the tradwife internet, there is a woman performing a life she does not actually live. Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel “Yesteryear” takes that performance and traps its heroine inside it, literally, and the result is one of the more purely
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