New Crime Books From Joyce Carol Oates, Harini Nagendra and More
In Joyce Carol Oates’s “48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,” a troubled, resentful younger sibling describes the long-ago events.
Book Review: ’48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,’ by Joyce Carol Oates
In Joyce Carol Oates’s “48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,” a troubled, resentful younger sibling describes the long-ago events.
Book Review: ‘Birchers,’ by Matthew Dallek
A new account of the John Birch Society by Matthew Dallek charts its history — and outsize influence on the contemporary Republican Party.
Read Your Way Through Miami
To love Miami is to accept that it is a city in flux. Jonathan Escoffery, one of its writers, recommends books that help pin the Florida metropolis down.
Newly Published, From a Mozambican Emperor to Nazi Face Transplants
A selection of recently published books.
Who Was Leonardo’s Mother? A Novelist Has Evidence She Was Enslaved.
An author has a theory that the artist’s mother, Caterina, was kidnapped as a girl in the Caucasus area of Central Asia.
Amy Schwartz, Who Captured Life as Viewed by a Child, Dies at 68
The dozens of books for young readers that she wrote and illustrated had a knack for finding “the wondrous in the mundane.”
John Jakes, Whose Historical Novels Hit the Jackpot, Dies at 90
His sagas of the Revolution and the Civil War sold tens of millions of copies, were adapted for TV and put him in the pantheon of big-name authors.
Ann Napolitano’s New Novel, “Hello Beautiful,” Is the 100th Pick of Oprah’s Book Club
Ann Napolitano toiled in obscurity for years. Novels went unpublished; agents turned her down. She found recognition with “Dear Edward.” Then came the call: “Hello Beautiful” was the 100th pick for what is arguably the most influential book club in the world.
In the Search for Latin America’s Disappeared, Memories and Evidence Entwine
In “Still Life With Bones,” the anthropologist Alexa Hagerty describes how she learned to see the dead with a forensic eye — and to listen to the living.
Book Review: ‘How to Think Like a Woman,’ by Regan Penaluna
In “How to Think Like a Woman,” Regan Penaluna, a scholar who left the field, takes it to task for its historical misogyny and persistent sexism.
Book Review: ‘Truth and Repair,’ by Judith Herman
In “Truth and Repair,” her follow-up to 1992’s “Trauma and Recovery,” the psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that healing is more than a “private, individual matter.”
Book Review: ‘Y/N,’ by Esther Yi
In Esther Yi’s weird and wondrous ‘Y/N,’ a bored young woman in thrall to a boy band buys a one-way ticket to Seoul.
Book Review: ‘The Lost Americans,’ by Christopher Bollen
In Christopher Bollen’s novel “The Lost Americans,” a New Yorker seeks answers about her brother’s sudden death abroad.
Book Review: ‘The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery’
In “The Real Work,” the longtime New Yorker staff writer dissects the process of mastering new skills by acquiring some himself.
Book Review: ‘Walking Practice,’ by Dolki Min
In Dolki Min’s debut novel, “Walking Practice,” an extraterrestrial who crash-lands on Earth shows what it means to feel out of place in one’s body and its surroundings.
Book Review: ‘Heart Sutra,’ by Yan Lianke
“Heart Sutra” focuses on faith under state control.
Why Would Someone Steal Unpublished Manuscripts?
Filippo Bernardini has been accused by the government of stealing over 1,000 book manuscripts. In court filings, he said he was motivated not by money but by a love of reading.
Review: ‘The Dog of the North,’ by Elizabeth McKenzie
In “The Dog of the North,” Elizabeth McKenzie maps the zany travels of an injury-prone clan with a hole at its center.
Book Review: ‘Playing God,’ by Mary Jo McConahay
In “Playing God,” the journalist Mary Jo McConahay argues that an alliance of extremely conservative bishops and Catholic activists is exerting a profound impact on our national politics.
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