Please Remain Seated Until You Finish These Thrillers
“Falling,” “Seat 7A” and “Hostage” have one thing in common: altitude. Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
What Can Surfing Tell Us About Addiction?
In “The Drop,” Thad Ziolkowski explores the ways that surfing both acts as a “parable” for addiction and might provide a cure for it.
If You Lived Here, You’d Be in Hell by Now
Carolyn Ferrell’s beautifully hair-raising debut novel takes readers into a house of horrors where some survivors have a better chance than others.
A Wife and Mother Finds a New House and Decides to Move in Alone
Dana Spiotta’s new novel explores a middle-aged fantasy of solitude to great effect.
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Keith Ridgway’s “A Shock” initially looks like a collection of loosely linked stories, but reveals itself to be an expertly built house of mirrors.
Two Fathers Risk It All To Avenge Their Murdered Sons In This New Thriller
In S.A. Cosby's visceral new thriller, two fathers, one Black, one white — both scarred and hardened by life and prison time — risk everything in the hunt for justice for their murdered sons.
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An Office Novel That Dares to Think Outside the Cubicle
In “The Very Nice Box,” set at an Ikea-like furniture company, Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman deliver workplace drama with a twist.
New & Noteworthy, From Quentin Tarantino to Comic Essays of Female Friendship
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
A New Novel Reinvents E.M. Forster’s Classic Gay Love Story ‘Maurice’
Forster’s novel featured a rare happy ending for gay characters. William di Canzio’s new book, “Alec,” picks up and continues their story.
Book Review: ‘Couple Found Slain,’ by Mikita Brottman
“Couple Found Slain,” by Mikita Brottman, offers an accounting of the criminal mental health system.
Debut Novels by Jesse McCarthy, Gabriel Krauze and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
New fiction spans gang violence in London, a fundamentalist regime in North Africa, Brooklyn gentrification and the Black diaspora in Brazil.
A Spy Thriller That Mixes Fact and Fiction to Harrowing Effect
Featuring a C.I.A. agent with secrets in her past, potentially violent religious extremists and a risky op in Hamburg, “The Cover Wife,” by Dan Fesperman, gives imaginative twists to events plucked from our near past.
Book Review: ‘Fox & I,’ by Catherine Raven
“Fox & I” is Catherine Raven’s memoir of her relationship with a bushy-tailed creature — no, not a dog.
In Violet Kupersmith’s Novel, a Young Woman Disappears in Saigon
The heroine of “Build Your House Around My Body,” a half-Vietnamese American in her 20s, languishes abroad.
J.P. Morgan's Personal Librarian Was A Black Woman. This Is Her Story.
Belle Da Costa Greene was one of the most prominent career women of her time, but the world didn't know she was Black. A new novel from Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray tells her story.
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Summer After Summer, a Clan Returns to Cape Cod
In her debut novel, “The Paper Palace,” Miranda Cowley Heller follows an upper-crust family through decades at their bohemian backwoods compound.
Immigration Doesn't Just Mean Coming To America. These 4 Books Are Good Reminders.
Author Ocean Vuong recommends four books on the immigrant experience — but he wants to de-center America in these stories: "Immigration is a species-wide legacy," he says, and always has been.
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A Brawling, Go-for-Baroque Pulpfest
In S.A. Cosby’s new novel, “Razorblade Tears,” two fathers avenge their sons’ murders in great gothic geysers of blood.
An Outsider Finds Suspense in Hollywood
Catherine Steadman talks about her new novel, “The Disappearing Act,” and Michael Dobbs discusses “King Richard,” his new book about Watergate.
New in Paperback: ‘The Pull of the Stars’ and ‘Memorial Drive’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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