A Debut Novel About Friendship, Family and Other Ties That Bind
In “Brown Girls,” Daphne Palasi Andreades breaks a big world into small, meaningful pieces.
Taiwanese-Born Best Friends Endure a California Adolescence, Side by Side
Jean Chen Ho’s debut story collection, “Fiona and Jane,” follows all the milestones of growing up for immigrants in America.
The Novelist Who Saw Middle America as It Really Was
Sinclair Lewis captured the narrow-mindedness and conformity of middle-class America in the first half of the 20th century. On the 100th anniversary of his best-selling novel “Babbitt,” Robert Gottlieb revisits Lewis’s life and career.
Is the Human Impulse to Tell Stories Dangerous?
In “The Story Paradox,” Jonathan Gottschall explores how narrative shapes reality and our own actions.
New in Paperback: ‘Of Women and Salt’ and ‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Newly Published, From African Art to 3,000 Years of Athens History
A selection of books published this week.
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Banned Books, Parisian Spaghetti Dinners and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The Storybook Marriage of Alice and Martin Provensen
The Provensens lived inside a picture book as much as picture books lived inside them.
Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty
“I adore William James and Henry James, but did I also read E.L. James back in 2011? You bet.”
The Best Seller List Has a Century Club with Limited Membership
What books sell briskly for more than 100 weeks? There’s no formula, but pictures help.
New Books Explore the Many Ways Covid Has Altered Our Lives
From a diary of the pandemic’s first year to a philosophical meditation on what comes next, writers like Charles Finch and Bruno Latour take on the reality of Covid.
David Sedaris’s Diaries and Paul McCartney’s Songs
Sedaris talks about “A Carnival of Snackery,” and Paul Muldoon talks about working with McCartney on “The Lyrics.”
In 'The Four Humors,' a woman delves into the past on a journey of self-discovery
Turkish American writer Mina Seçkin's debut is an engrossing exploration of national identity, the meaning of family and loss, and what happens when a family hides its central secret.
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J.K. Rowling on the Magic of ‘Things’
There can be a strange magic in human-made things that are interwoven with our pasts, with our homes, with our great loves.
New in Paperback: ‘The Three Mothers’ and ‘Head Wounds’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Four New Crime Novels
In “The Replacement Wife,” Darby Kane’s mile-a-minute novel, a young wife tries to get someone — anyone — to take her suspicions seriously.
Robots, Female War Correspondents and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A Guide to Joan Didion’s Books
Ms. Didion was a prolific writer of stylish essays, novels, screenplays and memoirs. Here is an overview of some of her works, as reviewed in The Times.
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