A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself
Laird Hunt’s novel “Zorrie” is a rich study of a life in rural Indiana, through love and tragedy.
The Love Triangle That Caused a Religious Panic
“Doomed Romance,” by Christine Leigh Heyrman, offers a window onto ambition and hypocrisy in the 19th-century American evangelical movement at a critical moment in its history.
Was Bugsy Siegel the ‘Supreme Gangster’? A Biography Makes the Case
Michael Shnayerson’s “Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream” is a rise-and-fall story of the bootlegger and murderer who practically invented Las Vegas.
'We Run The Tides' Pulls You Into The Rough Seas Of Female Adolescence
Vendela Vida's novel centers on four 13-year-old girls who are perched on the edge of adulthood — and the recognition that some things they do or say now will change who they become as adults.
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'Under A White Sky' Examines What It Might Take For Humans To Continue To Exist
Elizabeth Kolbert makes clear how far we already are from a world of undisturbed, balanced nature — and how far we must go to find a new balance for the planet's future, one that still includes us.
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Electrons, Photons, Gluons, Quarks: A Nobel-Winning Physicist Explains It All
In “Fundamentals,” Frank Wilczek describes his own love for physics and details what we all need to understand about the forces that shape our physical world.
Powerful 'Removed' Walks A Path Between Memory And Mourning
Brandon Hobson's new novel crosses back and forth between past and present, mourning and memory to tell the story of a Cherokee family grappling with the death of a son at the hands of the police.
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Facing Down The Monster Within in 'What Big Teeth'
Rose Szabo has created a monstrous, dysfunctional family far worse than anything Charles Addams ever dreamed up — and young daughter Eleanor may be the worst of them. She just doesn't know why.
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When Silver Linings Don’t Cut It, Honesty Helps
When Suleika Jaouad was 22, she learned she had leukemia. In her memoir, “Between Two Kingdoms,” she looks back on what got her through.
Compelling Queer Romance Eclipses Sci-Fi Stakes in 'Winter's Orbit'
This charming, trope-laden sci-fi romance started life as an original story posted to a fanfiction site, and it wears its fannish influences proudly. Fake-dating? Hurt/comfort? Sunny/grumpy? Yes!
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A Journalist's Eye Enlivens 'Land Of Big Numbers'
Journalist Te-Ping Chen's fiction debut puts her reportorial talents to brilliant use, in a collection of short stories about Chinese life that will make readers reconsider their settled notions.
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Chang-rae Lee on His New Novel: ‘It’s Kind of a Crazy Book’
Lee discusses “My Year Abroad,” and Maurice Chammah talks about “Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty.”
New in Paperback: ‘Blowout’ and ‘The Last Trial’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Chang-rae Lee’s Global Revision of the Suburban Novel
“My Year Abroad” follows a young man from a transformative stint in Asia to his pursuit of happiness in a quiet American town.
Darwin’s Dim View of the Second Sex
The father of evolutionary theory held women to be intellectually inferior to men, with one notable exception. Michael Sims explains.
Addiction, Nampeyo and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Lenny Kravitz, Michael J. Fox, Cicely Tyson and Gabriel Byrne — All in Their Own Words
Listen to the latest celebrity memoirs in (mostly) their own recognizable voices.
2 Picture Books Celebrate the Poetry and Promise of Black Lives
In “Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter” and “The ABCs of Black History,” U is for Unfinished.
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
You'll Never Look At Your 'Good Neighbors' The Same Way Again
Sarah Langan's new novel takes the old theme of "something rotten in suburbia" and pushes it into the future, in an intense, uncomfortable story about class resentment and the horrors it can lead to.
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