Based on James Clavell’s novel, FX’s Shōgun is set in Japan in the year 1600 at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village. Watch trailer
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Worries about nuclear Armageddon, on the back burner for decades, seem to be reviving. In early November 2023, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia was revoking its ratification of the 1996 global nuclear test ban treaty. In this astute assessment of the current situation regarding nuclear weapons, Scoles, a contributing writer at Popular Science and author of Making Contact and They Are Already Here, offers a must-read overview of America’s nuclear arsenal, emphasizing the technical details of keeping it up to date in the absence of testing, along with efforts at avoiding catastrophic surprises such as accidental explosions, unwanted actions by other nuclear powers, and simple theft of radioactive material for “trafficking or malicious use,” which has occurred more than 300 times during the past 30 years. Read more
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With any prolific author, readers are likely to have particular favorites, which may not be the same as anyone else’s. Your list is likely to be just as good as mine – but here are the ones I recommend. Read more
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In “The Bishop and the Butterfly,” Michael Wolraich tells the story of the sensational true crime that dominated headlines and helped topple Tammany Hall. Read more
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Acclaimed novelist best known for The Prestige whose large body of work never fitted into any particular literary mould. Read more
TikTok’s popular BookTok channel has been buzzing about a new genre called “romantasy” that is spawning whole sections in bookstores. Read more
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Chester Himes was on par with Ellison, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, S.A. Cosby writes. Read more
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N. Scott Momaday, an author, literature professor and member of the Kiowa Indian tribe who became the first Native American to win a Pulitzer Prize — for his 1968 debut novel, “House Made of Dawn” — and helped inspire a flowering of contemporary Native American literature, died Jan. 24 at his home in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 89. Read more
So far as I can see, there is no legitimate sleight of hand involved in practicing the arts of painting, sculpture, and music. They appear to have had their origin in religion, and they are fundamentally serious. In writing—in all writing but especially in narrative writing—you are continually being taken in. The reader, skeptical, experienced, with many demands on his time and many ways of enjoying his leisure, is asked to believe in people he knows don’t exist, to be present at scenes that never occurred, to be amused or moved or instructed just as he would be in real life, only the life exists in somebody else’s imagination. Read more
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The home lies on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in the Orwell House, an early-1900 co-op building and has impressive Central Park views. Child has lived in the apartment with his family for the past 10 years. The four-bedroom single-story home has a great room with picture windows and, unsurprisingly for an author’s home, a library wall brimming with books. Price: $11 Million. Read more
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