Fiction
Enough About the Serial Killer. Let’s Talk About His Victims.
In her new novel, “Bright Young Women,” Jessica Knoll shifts our attention from a notorious criminal to the women who died by his hand.
By Patton Oswalt
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Recent and archived work by Patton Oswalt for The New York Times
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NonfictionThe Killer Who Terrorized Cleveland — and Spurred It to Change
In his new true-crime book, “American Demon,” Daniel Stashower explores the unsolved case of Cleveland’s “Torso Killer” and the quixotic hunt to stop him.
By Patton Oswalt
NonfictionHow Richard Linklater’s ‘Dazed and Confused’ Came to Exist
Patton Oswalt reviews “Alright, Alright, Alright,” an oral history by Melissa Maerz.
By Patton Oswalt
NonfictionWhat Our Extremist Politics Owe to Batman and Captain America
“The Sky Is Falling,” by the pop culture historian Peter Biskind, traces the roots of our polarized political climates to Hollywood, television and Marvel Comics.
By Patton Oswalt
NonfictionDavid Sedaris’s Diaries Track a Path From Struggle to Success
“Theft by Finding” compiles the author’s journal entries from 1977 to 2002.
By Patton Oswalt
Simon Rich’s ‘Spoiled Brats’
Simon Rich’s humorous stories take on the millennial generation.
By Patton Oswalt
- DVD
In Hitchcock’s World of Fallible Mortals
New Blu-ray editions of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” (1940), “Spellbound” (1945) and “Notorious” (1946),
By Dave Kehr
- True-Life Tales
Guns and Yoga
Guns and yoga are like reruns of “Law and Order” and having no life: they go good together.
By Patton Oswalt