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FOR HOLD - FILE - In this Friday, July 12, 2019 file photo, rain drops cover the window of a car as German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the opening of the James-Simon-Galerie of at the Museum's Island in Berlin. Germany prepares for the Sept. 26 election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel at the helm of Europe's biggest economy, satisfaction with the old government and expectations of the new one vary widely across the country of 83 million. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

A much-maligned German chancellor punches back, in understated Merkel style

Her memoir shows that many of the decisions that now seem controversial were products of their moment. So is Angela Merkel being turned into a scapegoat for problems that are afflicting Western democracies more generally?
Edwin Frank, author of "Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel."

How novels changed in the 20th century, and why

Maya Kessler, author of "Rosenfeld."

This novel should come with an X rating

Black and white portrait of Juhea Kim seated backwards at desk

An engrossing ballet novel asks whether becoming a star is worth the sacrifice

Commuters wear masks outside Tokyo Station in Tokyo Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Friday announced plans to start preparations for downgrading legal status of COVID-19 to an equivalent of seasonal influenza in the spring, a move that would further relax mask wearing and other preventive measures as the country seeks an exit plan. (Kyodo News via AP)

How Haruki Murakami and other writers are grappling with our surreal post-pandemic reality

The history of old age in America is all about reinvention. Too bad our political culture can’t keep up

Josh Brolin’s memoir presents a series of vignettes starring the actor as himself

An unreliable narrator navigates shifting, shaky ground in a taut riddle of a novel

A mystery explores the darkness of French-ruled Vietnam

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