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The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by RichaThe Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanaganrd Flanagan The world is burning and the sixth mass extinction is under way. When Anna’s finger disappears, and then a short while later her knee, she thinks curiously little of it. But then she begins to notice disappearances everywhere, and all around people refuse to see what is really happening. The Booker Prize winner’s eighth novel is a raging tale about grief and loss that asks existential qu...

Lapsed bookworm? How you can get back into the habit of reading We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Are you reluctant to curl up with a good book? Were you once an avid reader, but you’ve lost the habit? Is there always something more important to do, or more TV series to binge watch, or more social media to scroll? You are not alone. A UK study in 2015 revealed that almost a third of the population, about 16 mil...

Sections Best of The Sunday Read 2020: From Female Rage to Michelangelo’s David A few of our favorite and most popular episodes of the narrated article series from “The Daily.” A crew working on a reproduction of Michelangelo’s David in Carrara, Italy.Credit...Photo illustration by Maurizio Cattelan for The New York Times. Dec. 20, 2020 For the past few months, The Sunday Read has been a fixture of the weekend feed on “The Daily,” featuring narrated renditions of T...

What is the equivalent of public poetry — verse written at white heat after a momentous event — in literary fiction? In a blog post about the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack, Egyptian critic and novelist Sayed Tonsy Mahmoud turned to literary discussions in France. He proposed the useful term romans d’urgences. These are novels of urgency, emergency and immediacy. Yet, as he suggests, a potential problem with such responsive fiction (which I extend to include the conte, or short story, as well ...