Books

profiles 6/4/2019

Whose Story Will Sandi Tan Tell Next? The Idiot seemed like an “unadaptable” book. But after Shirkers, is there anything the director can’t do?

science of us 7/12/2019

I Can’t Stop Thinking About This 1991 Book About Pain It’s about healing the body with the mind.

By Edith Zimmerman

profile 6/19/2019

‘I Really Thought He Was Going to Kill Me and Bury My Body’ Romance author Sherrilyn Kenyon accused her husband of poisoning her. Was it her wildest fiction yet?

By Lila Shapiro

books 6/18/2019

Elin Hilderbrand Doesn’t Mind That You Call Her Books ‘Beach Reads’ “I was not the most talented person at Iowa, not by a long shot. But I could get shit done.”

By Katie Heaney

culture 6/17/2019

Nicholas Sparks Says He’s Sorry for Those Anti-LGBTQ Emails He says the emails in which he attempted to bar an LGBTQ club at his private school were written “in haste.”

By Amanda Arnold

cringe 6/14/2019

Naomi Wolf’s Nightmare Continues Apace Her publisher pushed back the release date after “new questions” arose about the contentious book.

By Claire Lampen

lawsuits 6/10/2019

The Story of the Woman Who Shamed the Transit Worker Is Getting Messier Natasha Tynes is suing Rare Bird Books for $13.4 million for “extreme emotional distress.”

By Amanda Arnold

Emily Doe, the Woman Brock Turner Assaulted, Is Writing a Memoir The Stanford rape survivor will “share her experience in emotional, honest and eloquent detail.”

culture 5/31/2019

I Can’t Stop Thinking About Donna Tartt’s Dorm-Room Martini Hours “She was wearing a black brocade skirt-suit and high heels and smoking from a long, slender cigarette holder.”

By Madeleine Aggeler

cancellations 5/29/2019

Moby Reads the Room and Cancels His Book Tour “I’m going to go away for awhile.”

By Jordan Crucchiola