Gilbert Cruz

Feb 19, 2025 | nytimes.com | Alex Barron |Kate LoPresti |Wendy Dorr |Sophia Lanman |Daniel Ramirez |Elisheba Ittoop | +1 more

One day, several decades ago, the writer Winnie Holzman was shopping in a Manhattan bookstore where a particular cover caught her eye. It showed a woman with a green face, a black hat pulled down over her eyes. The book was "Wicked" by Gregory Maguire, a retelling of L. Frank Baum's "Oz" stories from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the West. "When I turned it over and read the little précis on the back, it blew my mind," Holzman said.

Feb 14, 2025 | nytimes.com | Tina Antolini |Alex Barron |Wendy Dorr |Daniel Ramirez |Elisheba Ittoop |Gilbert Cruz

The screenwriter Peter Straughan has become adept at taking well known - and beloved - books and adapting them for the big and small screens. He was first nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay of the 2011 film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," based on the classic John le Carré spy novel, and then adapted Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" trilogy into an award-winning season of television, with an adaptation of the third novel coming out soon.

Feb 11, 2025 | nytimes.com | Alex Barron |Kate LoPresti |Wendy Dorr |Sophia Lanman |Elisheba Ittoop |Gilbert Cruz

Elijah Wald's 2015 book, "Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties," traces the events that led up to Bob Dylan's memorable performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. The book is about Dylan, but also about the folk movement, youth culture, politics and the record business. For the writer and director James Mangold, Wald's work provided an opportunity to tell an unusual story about the musician.

Jan 24, 2025 | editorandpublisher.com | Gilbert Cruz

We are delighted to announce that Laura Thompson has joined the Book Review as a fact-checker. She has worked for eight years as a reporter and fact-checker, most recently at New York magazine. “I’ve tracked down property tax appraisals from the 1920s, small-town city council minutes from the 1980s, errors in published Getty Images captions, and, in one extenuating circumstance, a source’s mother,” she writes.

Dec 31, 2024 | nytimes.com | Melissa Kirsch |Gilbert Cruz |MJ Franklin |Jennifer Szalai |A.O. Scott |Sarah Lyall | +10 more