James Madison, Comic Books and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
New in Paperback: ‘Summer’ and ‘The Dragons, the Giant, the Women’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
When the End of Life Seems Endless
A married couple makes a suicide pact in Lionel Shriver’s new novel, “Should We Stay or Should We Go.”
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys
A fan of crime novels, the former police commissioner loves Michael Connelly’s hero Harry Bosch — but adds, “I don’t have a favorite villain.”
This Family Saga Finds Grace And Beauty In Ordinary Lives, Fully Lived
Simon Van Booy's new novel Night Came With Many Stars follows several generations of a Kentucky family, their crossroads and choices, their curses and hard memories, their luck and their chances.
(Image credit: David R. Godine, Publisher)
John Green is Not Writing in Code
The author of “The Fault in Our Stars” is back on the best seller list with his first book for adults. This time, he’s telling readers who he is.
Was the Space Program Worth the Cost?
Jeff Shesol’s “Mercury Rising” explores the careers of John Kennedy and John Glenn as a way to cut through the rhetoric of space exploration.
'We Need New Stories' Asks: Why Are People Prone To Believing The Largest Of Lies?
Author Nesrine Malik is reclaiming the terms of defense against ignorance and bigotry, ones that she says have become rote in the mouths of some and insults in the mouths of others.
(Image credit: W.W. Norton & Co.)
Letters Reveal Author's Strength In A World Of Destructive Noise
Akwaeke Emezi's Dear Senthuran is a story of transcendence over violence that has marked their lived experience, told through letters to friends, lovers, and public figures — some they've never met.
(Image credit: Riverhead Books)
Still Don't Want To Go Out? Here Are 3 Books For An Inner Journey
Everyone's talking about getting out and about now that the pandemic has calmed — but what if you don't want to? Here are three books in translation that'll help you dig into your own life and mind.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Archipelago Books)
Rivka Galchen’s Historical Novel Satirizes Moral Panic
“Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch” sets a literal witch hunt in 17th-century Germany.
Two Books on the Bizarreness of Texas
“Forget the Alamo,” by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford, and “A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles,” by Bill Minutaglio, have many strange stories to tell about the Lone Star State.
New Audiobooks From Seth Rogen, Danielle Henderson and Elon Green
From a grisly ’90s true-crime story to slapstick comedy to family heartbreak, these narrators know how to keep your attention.
A Jamaican-British Gay Man Makes His Own Way, With Musical Accompaniment
Paul Mendez’s debut novel, “Rainbow Milk,” traces the legacy of one family’s decision to leave the Caribbean.
‘Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir,’ by Akwaeke Emezi: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir,” by Akwaeke Emezi
‘Animal,’ by Lisa Taddeo: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Animal,” by Lisa Taddeo
Why ‘Unwell Women’ Have Gone Misdiagnosed for Centuries
The British scholar Elinor Cleghorn’s new history traces medicine’s sexism from Hippocrates to today.
‘Barcelona Dreaming’ Offers a Nostalgic Trip to Pre-Crisis Europe
Three cross-cultural narratives in Rupert Thomson’s new novel paint a picture of Barcelona during the early 2000s.
The Grindr Advice Column That Became a Memoir of Modern Queer Life
In “Hola Papi,” the writer John Paul Brammer mines his own experiences and traumas to deliver wisdom for queer readers.
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