Author Q&A
An Interview with Mary Lisa Gavenas

The biographer talks Mary Kay, direct sales, and those signature pink Cadillacs.

    Ghost-Eye: A Novel

    Book Review

    Ghost-Eye: A Novel

    By Amitav Ghosh

    An expansive tale of myth and modernity in India.

    The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity

    Book Review

    The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity

    By Robert Wright

    Evolution has been building toward something — and we’re not going to like what it is.

    Book Review

    I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

    By Irene Solà; translated by Mara Faye Lethem

    I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

    Women confront the devil, the perversity of war, and their own capacity for malice.

    Feature

    Our Week in Reviews: 7/25/26

    A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days.

    Book Review

    The Rarest Fruit

    By Gaëlle Bélem; translated by Hildegarde Serle

    The Rarest Fruit

    An enslaved boy’s cuisine-altering innovation is credited to his white “father.”

    Book Review

    A Century of Hitchcock: The Man, the Myths, the Legacy

    Two figures from the auteur’s orbit feature heavily in this new biography.

    Essay

    Introducing Science Politics

    By Kelly J. Kelly and Emily Mendenhall

    Introducing Science Politics

    Why we launched a “journazine.”

    Book Review

    Red Sheet: A Novel

    By James Ellroy

    Red Sheet: A Novel

    Freddy Otash returns, although he probably shouldn’t have.

    Essay

    Camaraderie & Critiques

    How a longtime writing group makes my work possible.

    Book Review

    Centennial: The Great Fair of 1876 and the Invention of America’s Future

    An able account of the nation’s 100th-birthday spectacle.