Book Review: ‘Silverview,’ by John le Carré
“Silverview” features a young bookstore owner in an English seaside town, caught up in an investigation involving two cunning spymasters.
A delicious Gothic romance strikes just the right balance of heart and horror
The Death of Jane Lawrence asks that age-old question of gothic novels and fairy tales: What do you do if your very attractive husband is hiding a very dark secret in his crumbling manor house?
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He Finds Women on Dating Apps. Then They Disappear.
After you finish Lisa Unger’s new novel, “Last Girl Ghosted,” you might think twice before swiping right.
This novel about Haiti's 2010 earthquake shows us: People persist
Myriam J.A. Chancy's new novel What Storm, What Thunder lays out the lives of people affected by the 2010 disaster with precision and compassion, giving even the most abject agency over their lives.
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Andrea Elliott on ‘Invisible Child’
Elliott talks about her new book, and Phoebe Robinson discusses “Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes.”
'Invisible Child' tells the story of childhood homelessness in America
While the book is very much the tale of young Dasani Coates, Andrea Elliott uses her story and that of her family to examine the many who find themselves in similarly impossible circumstances.
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New in Paperback: ‘Out Loud’ and ‘A Thousand Ships’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
How Comics Responded to Our Locked-Down, Anxious Covid Lives
In his latest Graphic Content column, Ed Park looks at three books — including new work from Art Spiegelman and Simon Hanselmann — that have emerged from the months of pandemic.
New Fiction About Family Members Gone Missing
Novels by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber, Lucy Corin and Zoe Whittall follow young women searching for lost loved ones.
Bookmobiles, Anderson Cooper and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
A Beautiful Mind
In Jeff Zentner’s “In the Wild Light,” a brilliant girl who loves science and a soulful boy who writes poetry join forces to escape pain and poverty.
A Jailed Indian Boy Chases His Scrap of Sky
For the 9-year-old narrator of Padma Venkatraman’s “Born Behind Bars,” life was but a dream.
Celebrate the Book Review's 125th Anniversary: A Times Event
On Oct. 25, join The New York Times Book Review and special guests for performances of favorite letters and reviews from the archives, trivia and more.
Book Review: ‘Out of the Sun,’ by Esi Edugyan
The historical and biographical essays in “Out of the Sun” reveal the constraints of the white, Western narrative.
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Part horror, part lit fic, this gory new feast of a novel is almost too much
James Han Mattson's Reprieve — set at a full-contact escape room attraction where actors can attack players — is overstuffed with character arcs and concepts, but somehow he makes it all work.
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Miriam Toews' latest novel offers ardent, funny lessons in staying and fighting
Miriam Toews based the women of Fight Night on the women in her own life — her battles are their battles; against pompous religious leaders, abusive husbands and the lies depression can tell.
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Once a Best Seller, Always a Best Seller, Especially if You’re Rick Ross
When the rapper and hip-hop star found out that his book made the list, he went ahead and made it permanent.
Mary Beard Would Like a Moratorium on Churchill Biographies, Thank You
“And perhaps half the number of diet/self-help/well-being books would be quite sufficient.”
This version of Sleeping Beauty is wide awake, and knows what to do with that spindle
Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered gives us a Sleeping Beauty for today, cursed not by an evil fairy but by an industrial accident, and yanked into another dimension where she must save a princess.
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