On Matters of Race, Randall Kennedy Demands Thinking Over Feeling
Kennedy’s new essay collection, “Say It Loud!,” challenges many common beliefs in the name of individuality.
Moving to New York With Little Cash but Charm to Spare
“Happy Hour,” a debut novel by Marlowe Granados, follows a pair of thrifty, stylish and nimble young women navigating the big city.
Trans Rights and Gender Identity
In “Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality,” Helen Joyce argues against an increasingly popular idea.
Sally Rooney’s Novel of Letters Puts a Fresh Spin on Familiar Questions
“Beautiful World, Where Are You” asks readers to consider everything from the nature of fame to our place in the modern world.
His Mother Is Terminally Ill. His Father, a Mystery.
In Atticus Lish’s second novel, “The War for Gloria,” a teenage boy shoulders grueling family hardships.
How One New York Firefighter Remembers 9/11 — and What He Learned
Joseph Pfeifer was a battalion chief on 9/11, and his memoir, “Ordinary Heroes,” vividly describes the day as seen by someone at ground zero.
A Poet-Nun Inspired This Tale Of Medieval Ambition, Pleasure And Aspiration
Lauren Groff digs deep into the past with Matrix, based on the real-life writer Marie de France. Little is known about the real Marie, but Groff gives us an ambitious, complex, striving woman.
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Dawn Turner Looks Back on Her ’70s Girlhood, and Those Who Got Left Behind
“Three Girls From Bronzeville” follows three close-knit children as they grow up to become radically different women.
Why Did Two People So Poorly Matched Stay Together So Long?
Christopher Sorrentino’s memoir, “Now Beacon, Now Sea,” examines the endurance and effects of his parents’ confounding marriage.
Venita Blackburn Captures the Wonder, and Danger, of Young Womanhood
The stories in “How to Wrestle a Girl” follow characters in lust, in grief, in fear and online.
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If Monsters Were Real, This Book Knows What You'd Really Do — Nothing
What appears to be a simple, awful police killing turns out to be much worse in Cadwell Turnbull's new No Gods, No Monsters, set in a world where monsters and magic are real, and none of it is pretty.
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Maggie Nelson Exposes Freedom’s Paradoxes
The poet and critic’s latest book, “On Freedom,” is a philosophical meditation on a concept at the center of American history and culture.
In 'Today A Woman Went Mad In The Supermarket,' It's The Details That Really Get You
Author Hilma Wolitzer, mother of Meg Wolitzer, tackles the ups and downs of a long, not always happy marriage in her excellently named new story collection, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket.
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There’s a GameStop Book, Already
With “The Antisocial Network,” Ben Mezrich does for January’s infamous short squeeze what he did for Facebook with “The Accidental Billionaires.”
Andrew Sullivan on Being ‘Out on a Limb’
Sullivan talks about his collection of essays, and Leila Slimani discusses “In the Country of Others.”
The Children of 9/11 Come of Age
Three middle grade books explore bias and discrimination against Muslim American young people in the terrorist attack’s devastating aftermath.
The Navy SEAL Who Went Rogue
David Philipps’s “Alpha” tells the story of an out-of-control Navy officer who won the protection of Donald Trump and escaped a murder charge.
New in Paperback: ‘What You Are Going Through,’ ‘Finding Freedom’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The Ideal Reading Experience, The American Dollar and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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