When Covid struck the Wolitzers, Meg and Hilma bonded by creating a book. Let them tell you about it.
Meg Wolitzer and her mother, Hilma, at Carl Schurz Park in Manhattan in August. (Calla Kessler/For The Washington Post)
Meg Wolitzer talks to her mom, Hilma, about her new collection, “Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket,” parenthood, writing and how humor carries them through.
Gabrielle Union wants to talk about the tough stuff. You ready?
The star who made her name in “Bring It On” talks about her new book “You Got Anything Stronger?”
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In Liane Moriarty’s ‘Apples Never Fall,’ a mother disappears and a family falls to pieces
Moriarty tells a fresh, juicy tale about four siblings and their tennis-obsessed parents.
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Now that you’ve read ‘The Midnight Library,’ let’s talk about the ending
Matt Haig’s “The Midnight Library” is the perfect novel for our current moment.
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Virginia Woolf’s novels once left me cold. A new book about ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ changed my mind.
Merve Emre’s “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway” highlights the many reasons Woolf’s book is a masterpiece.
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A dual portrait of Herman and Joe Mankiewicz offers an intimate look at the Hollywood brothers
Nick Davis, Herman Mankiewicz’s grandson, spent years doing research for “Competing with Idiots.”
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Michaela Coel takes the television industry to task in ‘Misfits’
“Misfits” revisits a powerful speech the “I May Destroy You” creator gave at the 2018 Edinburgh TV festival.
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A role for art in times of turmoil? ‘A Play for the End of the World’ gives no easy answers.
A novel by Jai Chakrabarti follows two productions of a play staged decades apart as acts of resistance.
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With ‘Harlem Shuffle,’ Colson Whitehead proves once again that he’s a master of reinvention
Perhaps it was only a matter of time before he drove down 125th Street in his native New York City to deliver a wry crime novel.
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Colm Toibin’s ‘The Magician’ imagines the adventurous life of a literary great
Thomas Mann may have written some very heavy books, but this biographical novel offers a more lighthearted portrait of the German writer.
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- PerspectiveI did not spend my summer binge-watching TV. Here are the books I loved instead.
