In Praise of Daphne du Maurier What begins as a taste for this author’s twisty plots, briny wit and bracingly bleak view of marriage can become an addiction.

The New York Times Books Grant Snider has long been making comics about the glory (and horror) of the creative process. He joins us to draw and discuss his first book, "The Shape of Ideas." Leave your questions in the comments, and NYT Book Review editor Parul Sehgal will as Read more ... k some.

Meet the real life Benjamin Button- a newborn baby who looks like an 80-year old Residents of Bangladesh, Biswajit and his wife, Parul Patro, have been busy attending curious guests who have been thronging their home to catch a glimpse of their son. Their newborn is barely a few days old but looks like an 80 years old.The baby bo Read more ... y has wrinkles on the face, has a very shrunken bo...

The 'Forced Heroism' of the Way We Use 'Survivor' In a thoughtful piece at the New York Times Magazine, Parul Sehgal considers the word “survivor,” and particularly its relatively recent use to describe those who have experienced sexual assault. Sehgal persuasively argues that the term “surviv Read more ... or” was once a powerful reclamation of the narrative, an…