Tom Lin Makes His Debut With ‘The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu’
Tom Lin is making his debut with “The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu,” a novel that has drawn comparisons to Cormac McCarthy and “True Grit.”
How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past
In “How the Word Is Passed,” the poet and journalist Clint Smith visits nine places to assess how we are reckoning with our racial history and its legacy.
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Lincolns’ Marriage
In “An American Marriage,” Michael Burlingame portrays Abraham and Mary as being constantly at each other’s throat.
In César Aira’s World, Life Is a Series of Chance Encounters
“The Divorce,” Aira’s newly translated novel, presents as many riddles as answers.
All the World Needs Is a Glowing Blue Supermetal From Space
Benjamin Percy’s novel “The Ninth Metal” imagines a cutthroat race for meteor deposits with extraordinary properties.
Nicola Yoon’s New Book Is a Romance About a Teenager Who Doesn’t Believe in Love
In Nicola Yoon’s book “Instructions for Dancing,” a teenager who doesn’t believe in love rediscovers romance through dance classes.
Drew Pearson, the Muckraking Journalist With the Bully Pulpit
Donald A. Ritchie’s “The Columnist” describes the 37-year career of a journalist who was, in his time, one of the most powerful men in Washington.
Breaking Out of Prison With a Ouija Board and Some Clever Tricks
“The Confidence Men,” by Margalit Fox, recounts the elaborate true-life saga of two British officers who escaped from an Ottoman prison camp during World War I by brainwashing and manipulating their captors.
Kristen Arnett’s Latest Subjects Are the Lesbian Parents of an Autistic-Coded Son
In “With Teeth,” two moms struggle to keep their marriage — and their neuroatypical child — alive.
Ben Rhodes Takes a Gloomy Tour of the World
Rhodes’s “After the Fall” surveys the dangers America’s policies have helped create, and how those dangers are coming back to haunt us.
Michelle Orange Tackles a Writerly Taboo: Her Mother
Few subjects may be as resistant to successful literary examination. But in “Pure Flame” the author, assisted by a literature on feminism and motherhood, brings a cleareyed approach to her relationship with her mother, an ambitious businesswoman.
As Venice Floods, a Lush, Malice-Infused Mystery Unfolds
In “Palace of the Drowned,” Christine Mangan explores the uneasy relationship between two women.
The Young Activist and the Atlanta Bar That Shaped Queer History
In “A Night at the Sweet Gum Head,” Martin Padgett follows the L.G.B.T.Q. activist Bill Smith and the drag queen John Greenwell to chronicle 1970s queer history.
Who Can You Count On? And Other Unanswerable but Alluring Questions.
In “One Two Three,” Laurie Frankel takes readers to a small town ravaged by chemicals and into the lives of triplets whose lives are far from normal.
A Stunning Graphic Novel Uncovers The History Of Enslaved Women Who Fought Back
Wake, by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martínez, blends passion and fact to set a new standard for illustrated history: Not just action scenes of daring, desperate women, but the struggle to make them known.
(Image credit: Simon and Schuster)
Ashley C. Ford’s Memoir Recalls Life With a Single Mom and a Jailed Dad
In “Somebody’s Daughter,” the author learns the father she’s barely known is finally coming home, after 25 years in prison.
How the Religious Right Made Same-Sex Marriage a Gay Rights Crusade
A detailed history of the fight for same-sex marriage, Sasha Issenberg’s “The Engagement” casts fresh light on the role of conservative churches in compelling gay rights activists to embrace the issue as a cause.
'Sixteen Scandals' Rewinds A Teen Classic To Regency England
Sophie Jordan's romp of a novel follows Primrose Ainsworth, youngest of four sisters, who escapes the family on her 16th birthday for an adventure through Regency London with a charming mystery man.
(Image credit: HMH Books for Young Readers)
Give 'The Great Whipplethorp Bug Collection' A Buzz, You'll Bee Charmed
In Ben Brashares and Elizabeth Bergeland's charming new picture book, a discontented young boy finds a new way to carry on his family's legacy of awesomeness — and without hurting any bugs.
(Image credit: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Welcome to the Party of the Century. Leave Your Scruples at the Door.
In “Malibu Rising,” Taylor Jenkins Reid surfs a wave of fame, dysfunction and sibling forbearance.
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