It’s a ‘Full-Contact’ Haunted House. What Could Go Wrong?
James Han Mattson’s “Reprieve” is a horror novel with questions of identity and power at its core.
Writer with Bell's palsy ponders how to experience joy when expression is limited
Smile records Sarah Ruhl's coming to terms with her new face and the conundrums it presents — after the playwrite wondered for ten years whether the story deserved to live on the page.
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Newly Published, From Famous Manuscripts to a Bookstore in Egypt
A selection of books published this week.
‘The Lincoln Highway,’ by Amor Towles: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Lincoln Highway,” by Amor Towles
‘My Monticello,’ by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “My Monticello,” by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
How White Feminism Threw Its Black Counterpart Under the Bus
Kyla Schuller’s “The Trouble With White Women” exposes the hypocrisies and patriarchal overtones of the mainstream movement for women’s rights.
Claire Vaye Watkins goes on an autofictional odyssey out West in her latest
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness follows a woman, also named Claire, who abandons her family during a bout of postpartum depression in favor of a road trip through significant places in her past.
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With four kids in an old Studebaker, Amor Towles takes readers on a real joyride
Set in the early summer of 1954, The Lincoln Highway follows a crew of kids — some fresh out of reform school — who hit the road in search of a better future, with a few detours along the way.
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At This Book Club, the Truth Is About to Come Out. It’s Not Pretty.
In “The Neighbor’s Secret,” L. Alison Heller gives us a dishy tale of nosy neighbors, mysterious vandalism, family shame — and murder.
Jonathan Franzen Takes On the Domestic Ills of the 1970s
“Crossroads,” his new novel, follows one family in a Chicago suburb as they navigate a world full of moral dilemmas.
The Enduring Influence of Fannie Lou Hamer, Civil Rights Advocate
Two new biographies, “Walk With Me,” by Kate Clifford Larson, and “Until I Am Free,” by Keisha N. Blain, recount Hamer’s struggle to open up voting to Black people in Mississippi and argue for the continued relevance of her tactics.
‘Grandma, Do You Think You Were Good in Bed?’ and Other Questions
The narrator of Elisa Victoria’s debut, “Oldladyvoice,” is wise beyond her years.
The Trauma and Talent of Some of History’s Greatest Women Artists
“The Mirror and the Palette,” by Jennifer Higgie, examines 500 years of women’s self-portraits, tracing a theme of suffering, both physical and emotional, from their lives to their art.
Claire Vaye Watkins’s Urgent, Sweaty Novel About a Woman Who’s a Mess
“I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness” recounts what happens when a young wife and mother abruptly abandons her husband, her new baby and her life.
Book Review: ‘A Carnival of Snackery,’ by David Sedaris
In his second collection of diary entries, the popular essayist welcomes readers into the kitchen of his brain.
Book Review: ‘Taste,’ by Stanley Tucci
In his new memoir, “Taste,” the actor opens up about the meals he’s eaten, the people he knows and his cancer diagnosis.
Book Review: ‘The Lincoln Highway,’ by Amor Towles
“The Lincoln Highway” follows young adventure seekers east to a midcentury New York.
A Novelist Reports ‘From the World of #FakeNews’
Amitava Kumar’s novel “A Time Outside This Time” is a crusade against misinformation amid global upheaval.
Book Review: ‘The Taking of Jemima Boone,’ by Matthew Pearl
“The Taking of Jemima Boone,” the first nonfiction book by the novelist Matthew Pearl, recounts a legendary abduction case that complicates our view of relations between settlers and Native Americans during westward expansion.
In Dave Eggers’s New Novel, the Problem With Big Tech Is Us
“The Every,” a follow-up to Eggers’s 2013 novel “The Circle,” is meant to scare us straight, sunk as we are in tech complacency.
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