Dark Truths About Britain’s Imperial Past
Caroline Elkins’s “Legacy of Violence” details the terrible price paid by peoples under the rule of the British Empire.
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With her novel “A House Between the Earth and the Moon,” Rebecca Scherm creates a world that embodies the anxiety and indignity of our times.
Stop Telling Single People to Put Themselves ‘Out There’
For the women in Kate Folk’s debut story collection, it might be safer to just be alone.
Today We’d Call Her a Progressive Heroine. She’d Have Hated It.
In “Diamonds and Deadlines,” Betsy Prioleau tells the story of the extravagant, ruthless Gay Nineties media tycoon Miriam Leslie.
A sleeper-agent-pageant-queen exacts revenge — and finds herself — in 'Monarch'
Poet Candice Wuehle's irresistibly weird debut novel Monarch is the kind of book that you want to start reading again immediately after turning the last page.
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How to Game the Dystopian Future
In “Imaginable,” the futurist and game designer Jane McGonigal argues that being open to even far-fetched catastrophes can better prepare us.
The Shame Industrial Complex Is Booming. Who’s Cashing In?
In “The Shame Machine,” the data scientist Cathy O’Neil seeks to discover who exactly has a vested interest in our unhappiness.
A Personal Tour of Modern Irish History
Fintan O’Toole talks about “We Don’t Know Ourselves,” and Julie Otsuka discusses “The Swimmers.”
Dazzling New Short-Story Collections
Three dazzling new short-story collections rattle and shake with horror and heartbreak.
Steward Brand’s Long, Strange Trip
John Markoff’s “Whole Earth” traces Brand’s career, from counterculture impresario to management consultant.
New in Paperback: ‘The Promise’ and ‘Whereabouts’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Preteen Angst, Swedish Style
Even utopian Sweden has mean girls, but in Kristina Sigunsdotter’s “The Secrets of Cricket Karlsson” theirs is a kinder, quirkier cruelty.
Karina Yan Glaser’s First Non-Vanderbeekers Novel
“A Duet for Home” interweaves the story lines of two music-loving preteens living in a South Bronx homeless shelter.
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Jeremy Denk’s Memoir Features Music, Love and More Music
In “Every Good Boy Does Fine,” the concert pianist recalls his artistic and erotic awakening.
3 nonfiction translations to read this spring
It's been rare for non-academic nonfiction to be translated into English — but that's beginning to change. These three books may be academic in the depth of their inquiries — but not in style.
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New Mysteries and Crime Fiction
The note — found at a murder scene in Simone St. James’s spine-tingling new novel, “The Book of Cold Cases” — seemed to implicate one woman. Or did it?
Be Not Afraid? Seth Meyers Thinks That’s Baloney.
In his best-selling picture book, the comedian shows how fear and anxiety can fold in the face of teamwork.
Audiobooks, Translations, and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Why David Shields Can’t Read the ‘Greatest Book Ever Written’ Anymore
Shields used to idolize Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time.” But these days it “feels to me sort of twee. ... I need more comedy, more urgency, more white space.”
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