Book Review: ‘Troubled,’ by Kenneth R. Rosen
In “Troubled,” Kenneth R. Rosen investigates the kind of tough-love programs he was placed in as a teenager and exposes their unusual methods.
Book Review: ‘Saving Justice,’ by James Comey
Comey’s “Saving Justice” is a revealing memoir that describes his feelings about Trump and his worries about the nation.
To Adapt 'After The Rain,' Artists Cross All Kinds Of Boundaries
A new graphic novel adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor's story "After the Rain" sets straightforward art against scattered, skewed panels to produce a sense of primal struggle between order and chaos.
(Image credit: Abrams ComicArts - Megascope)
2 New Picture Books Depict the Elusive Hide-and-Seek of Grief
Andrew Arnold’s “What’s the Matter, Marlo?” and Matthew Cordell’s “Bear Island” separate the person from the emotions, and model empathy.
How the Author of ‘Ragtime’ Taught an Aspiring Writer to Hear the Music
S. Kirk Walsh took a writing class with the novelist E.L. Doctorow and discovered a whole new world of sound.
Gary Paulsen’s Real-Life Survival Guide
“Gone to the Woods” is a memoir so rife with childhood trauma he wrote it in the third person.
Charles Yu Talks About ‘Interior Chinatown’
Yu discusses his National Book Award-winning novel, and David S. Brown talks about “The Last American Aristocrat,” his biography of Henry Adams.
Murder, Murder Everywhere: the Woods, the Hospital, the Market Square
Marilyn Stasio surveys the latest crime novels and finds them very much to her liking.
There Will Be Books: Comey Sequel Signals A New Wave Of Memoirs In The Post-Trump Era
Former FBI Director James Comey sees his obligation, his client, not as the person or party who appointed him or even as the Department of Justice. He sees his obligation as being to justice itself.
(Image credit: Paul Marotta/Getty Images)
New in Paperback: ‘Weather’ and ‘The Making of a Miracle’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
‘Icebound’ Takes Us Back to the Arctic, in All Its Terror and Splendor
Andrea Pitzer’s new book resurrects the story of William Barents’s 16th-century expeditions to the Arctic.
Lengthy Biographies, James Joyce and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father
“My late father considered the Bible the inerrant Word of God ghostwritten by a single privileged eyewitness from creation to revelation. I explained, no, it was actually a lost and found scrapbook riddled with time gaps, savage violence and contradictory accounts. And yet...”
'Persephone Station' Aims For The Stars — And Almost Makes It
Stina Leicht's new sci-fi novel has a lot of moving parts: Space opera, rough-and-tumble mercenaries, corporate intrigue, alien first contact — and to her credit, she almost pulls it all off.
(Image credit: Gallery/Saga Press)
A Comic Novel, a Mystery, a Love Story, a Melodrama — All About Words
Eley Williams’s first novel, “The Liar’s Dictionary,” is a hilarious and clever homage to the power of words, both real and imagined.
Ernest Cline Was ‘Raised by Screens.’ Look How Well He Turned Out!
With “Ready Player Two,” the novelist goes back to the future he created in “Ready Player One.”
‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism
Bette Howland’s 1974 memoir, recently reissued, recounts her time in a psychiatric ward and the people she met there.
'Outlawed' Frontiers Of Gender And Sexuality Beckon In This Sly Western
Critic Maureen Corrigan has been describing Anna North's new novel to friends as "The Handmaid's Tale meets Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." It's a glib tagline, but not without justification.
(Image credit: Bloomsbury)
‘The Prophets’ Explores Black Love and Memory in a Time of Trauma
Robert Jones Jr.’s debut novel tells the story of two enslaved boys in love.
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