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☆ Was She Murdered? Kidnapped? Or Did She Fake Her Own Disappearance?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Sarah Lyall | More About Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

This month’s books all feature women making bad decisions — about themselves, about other people and about how to confront the threats swirling around them. Let’s begin with Detective Elise Sutton, the forensics expert thrust into a bewildering crisis in Wendy Walker’s WHAT REMAINS (Blackstone, 293 pp., $27.99). Shopping for towels at a local megastore, Elise is startled by a shooter firing into the crowd. “I am suddenly aware that, after 12 years in the department, this is the first time I have drawn my weapon in the outside world,” she thinks. And then, just as the gunman points his weapon at a bystander, she shoots him dead.

Persons: Let’s, Elise Sutton, Wendy Walker’s, Elise

☆ Murder in a Moneyed Fire Island Enclave
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Rosenblum snaps back to the beginning of the summer, where she lays out her rogues’ gallery of gossips, hypocrites, cheaters. “As the summer went on, the women’s fillers and injectables wore off,” she writes. (Except for the part about the possible murder.) With so many objectionable characters, it’s anybody’s guess who will end up dead before the summer is over. And there are enigmatic ancient writings and rituals that speak to the nature of God and existence itself.

Persons: Rosenblum, She’s, ”, “, Danielle Trussoni’s, Mike Brink, ” There’s, — Organizations: Labor Locations: Saltaire

☆ Summer Book Preview and 9 Thrillers to Read
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s no rule that says you have to read thrillers in the summer — some people gobble them up them year round, while others avoid them entirely and read Kafka on the shore — but on a long, lazy vacation day it’s undeniably satisfying to grab onto a galloping narrative and see where it pulls you. This week, Gilbert Cruz talks to our thrillers columnist Sarah Lyall about some classics of the genre, as well as more recent titles she recommends. “There’s all this commercial pressure on the writers, and when there’s too much pressure on a writer, they can’t really let their imagination go. She’s probably lost a lot of money because of it. She’s probably given up a lot.

Persons: Kafka, Gilbert Cruz, Sarah Lyall, Donna Tartt’s, ” Lyall, “, there’s, Donna Tartt, She’s, Joumana Khatib

Card 5 of 9New mysteries offer plenty of suspense. Background Image: In this illustration, a figure lies on a beach on a striped towel, a book over their eyes. On the left is a figure who recalls Sherlock Holmes. He is wearing a hat and smoking a pipe, and bending down to peer at the sand through a magnifying glass.

ETImage Trumpet, a bloodhound, was named best in show last year after outlasting some terrific competition. Credit... Hiroko Masuike/The New York TimesThere are around 3,000 dogs at Westminster, and all of them are such good, good boys and girls. The 210 breed winners then advance to compete in the group finals. The seven group winners (four of which have already been decided) then vie for the big prize. Last year’s winner was Trumpet, a bloodhound.

☆ Striker Will Never Know He Wasn’t Best in Show
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

TORONTO — No one watching the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show last year could have missed Striker the Samoyed, a blindingly white confection of fluff and enthusiasm who stole the show with his goofy joie de vivre. Sadly for his fans, Striker lost in the final round, defeated by a lugubriously dignified bloodhound and a perky little French bulldog. “Hell, no,” said Judi Elford, Striker’s breeder and, with Marc Ralsky and Correen Pacht, his co-owner. “Does he care that he did not win best in show at Westminster? But he is still a champion, and he is still busy — playing, romping, posing and shedding at the home he shares with Pacht and Ralsky in north Toronto.

☆ At Charles’s Coronation, Everything Olde Was New Again
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The coronation of King Charles III was billed as a chance to usher in a new kind of monarchy — slimmer, more accessible and more inclusive — for the 21st century. Though Saturday’s ceremony had its share of modern flourishes, it was hard to escape the sense that they were mostly tweaks to an ancient ritual which, like the monarchy itself, can’t escape the heavy burdens of the past. As it happened, the coronation was a huge success by most measures. King Charles looked burdened, and then relieved, by the responsibility of it all; Queen Camilla looked radiant. “The Penny is mightier than the sword,” Chris Bryant, a Labour member of Parliament, tweeted.)

☆ Once Close, William and Harry Are Now Rows Apart
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

And so it was striking, and a little sad, to see how far Charles’s two sons — Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, and Prince William, the Prince of Wales — have drifted apart in the past few years. William had an official role in Saturday’s coronation, as the heir to the throne; Harry had none at all, except as a relative demoted to the third row of Westminster Abbey. It’s unclear whether the two acknowledged each other at all as William processed in, long after Harry took his seat. Dressed in a morning suit with a slew of medals on his chest, Harry smiled gamely as he entered the abbey. William wore full military regalia and at one point dropped to his knee and pledged allegiance to Charles, a moment that was both shockingly anachronistic and strangely touching.

☆ As a King Is Crowned, Some Britons Ask Why the Monarchy Persists
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-05 | by ( Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a scene in the 1975 movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” King Arthur roams around the English countryside attempting to gather knights for the Round Table. When he declares, “I am your king!” to a deeply unimpressed peasant, her response is both absurd and blindingly obvious. As long as there has been a monarch in this country — for more than a 1,000 years — there have been questions about the legitimacy of the monarchy. “One of the reasons that the monarchy persists is that we don’t often have serious conversations about why we have a monarchy,” said Alastair Bellany, an English-born historian at Rutgers University specializing in 16th- and 17th-century Britain. I think a serious country has to look in the mirror.

☆ Opinion | John Mulaney and the Insatiable Modern Audience
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Jessica Grose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

Judging by the reaction online, not to mention the texts on my phone, people had feelings about this — lots of them. Mulaney made the word “parasocial” go mainstream. But I do think many people’s expectations of celebrities have become unreasonable in the social media age. It used to be much easier for famous figures to maintain a firewall between their public personas and their private lives. Smith turns this idea over and over throughout the book — more than 100 pages later, she writes: “Maybe this isn’t a tell-mine.

☆ Maggie Smith Tries to Make the Divorce Memoir Beautiful
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Ms. Smith understands the irony of her situation, of course: that the debacle at home provided material for the book, which in turn gave her new financial security to support herself. The material also gave her the impetus — and the audience — to write a second book. As one friend commented on Instagram when Ms. Smith announced plans to publish “Keep Moving”: “You took those lemons and made lemonade, and then you added MF vodka to it.”Yes, Ms. Smith says in “You Could Make This Place Beautiful” — but. I wrote.”At the church, audience members talked about the rawness and honesty of Ms. Smith’s work, how it feels as if she is speaking directly to them. The more people I send it off to the more chance there is that it will be misconstrued or judged.”

☆ In the Footsteps of Charles III
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-20 | by ( Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

No royal heir in British history has waited longer than Charles III, the king formerly known as the Prince of Wales, to ascend the throne. By contrast, Charles — the oldest Prince of Wales in British history to become king — was born a monarch-in-waiting and has had a lifetime to prepare. The public in turn has had a lifetime to get to know Charles, starting from his rarefied childhood in the public eye. But Charles was an unusually outspoken Prince of Wales. He has often waded into debates on unexpected topics like alternative medicine and organic farming (pro) and modernist architecture (against).

☆ How Do You Pronounce Qatar? Probably Incorrectly.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Sarah Lyall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

WORLD CUP 2022 The 2022 World Cup is being hosted in Qatar, which, as everyone knows, is pronounced . Sepp Blatter, the former FIFA president, announcing in 2010 that “Ka-TAR” would host the 2022 World Cup. Hassan Al Thawadi, secretary general of Qatar’s World Cup organization QatarThis has not helped alleviate the general confusion among visitors. “I know it’s probably not the correct way — KUH-ter is for those who probably know what they’re talking about a little bit more — but I’m going with Ka-TAR.”Walker Zimmerman of the United States national team knows he doesn’t say Qatar correctly. Martin Tyler, the legendary Sky Sports broadcaster who is working his 12th World Cup this year, said he would do the same.

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