The longtime Christopher Nolan collaborator isn’t in the director’s forthcoming Homeric adaptation. But a new audiobook sets Caine’s voice off on its own adventure. By Alexandra Alter Monica Datta’s ...

June 23, 2026 • Facts by day, fiction by night! At the end of a long day in the newsroom, many of our journalists head home and escape into novels of all types.

Readings that the podcast’s guests say shaped their thinking. “The Ezra Klein Show” explores ideas with some of today’s most dynamic thinkers. We cover politics, culture, history, philosophy, ...

Riverhead signs Yasmin Zaher’s sophomore novel about a Palestinian journalist, Random House takes a collection of writings by the late Steve Albini, and more.

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