Gothic Fantasy Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity Al-Wasity’s haunting and romantic novel follows Leena Al-Sayer, a young refugee woman who can see ghosts, and St. Silas, a mysterious and supernatural Mafioso, as they embark on a quest that takes them through the urban underworld and eventually to the crumbling Weavingshaw estate, grappling with evils both supernatural…
Hollywood is a terrifying place. It’s not just the ruthless calibration of who’s on top and who’s not, updated constantly, that affects everyone from the biggest movie star to the dog walker. It’s that the whole place is built on a pitch. From the palm tree-lined streets to the statuette-lined mantels, it’s all the stuff…
by Jordan Harper A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE (Mulholland, 372 pp., $29) arrives on the heels of the drip-drip-drip of the Epstein files, with its juxtaposition of elite impunity and the exploitation of girls and women. Misogyny, abuse and skulduggery — perennial subjects in crime novels — are made fresh in this fiendish, gorgeously written descent into…
Andrew Hacker, a scholar of political science who wrote a host of provocative books on education, race relations and what he called a growing chasm between women and men, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 96. His wife, Claudia Dreifus, said the cause was complications of stomach cancer. To say that…
THE PALM HOUSE, by Gwendoline Riley When a new editor is appointed to run an old magazine or newspaper, beware if the green boss’s opening statements to a seasoned staff include the formula: “It’s great to be here at X, and now that I am, we’re all going to do our best to make X…
