Real-Life Political Violence Fuels Fiction in ‘The Abstainer’
Ian McGuire talks about his new novel, and Elisabeth Egan discusses Romy Hausmann’s “Dear Child.”
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The Cautionary Tale of Adam Neumann and WeWork
In “Billion Dollar Loser,” Reeves Wiedeman places the once exalted Silicon Valley founder in the context of contemporary capitalism.
The Cautionary Tale of Adam Neumann and WeWork
In “Billion Dollar Loser,” Reeves Wiedeman places the once exalted Silicon Valley founder in the context of contemporary capitalism.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
An Ex-Trump Insider Looks to Our Future With Russia and China
The former national security adviser H.R. McMaster’s new book, “Battlegrounds,” examines recent foreign policy and charts a path forward.
Grim, Ghastly and Gruesome: New Horror Fiction
Looking for a book that will scare the pants off you? We’ve got some suggestions.
Martin Amis Is Committed to the Pleasure Principle in Books
“In plainer terms, we read literature to have a good time.”
Pete Buttigieg Dropped Out of the Presidential Race and Wrote a Best Seller
In “Trust,” the wunderkind politician underscores the importance of what he calls “overlapping circles of belonging.”
Book Review: ‘A World Beneath the Sands,’ by Toby Wilkinson
In “A World Beneath the Sands,” Toby Wilkinson details the hundred years when many of the great discoveries of ancient Egypt were made, by Europeans.
'Dark Archives' Explores The Use Of Human Skin In Bookbinding
Megan Rosenbloom tells readers an adventurous tale of how her morbid curiosity brought her across an ocean to investigate the origins, motivations and techniques behind this macabre practice.
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History And Hatred Drive The Horror In 'Ring Shout'
P. Djèlí Clark's new novella is set in an alternate Jim Crow America where the Ku Klux Klan contains actual pointy-headed white demons, and The Birth Of a Nation is not just a film but an incantation.
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Real-World Experience Gives 'The Nightworkers' Its Punch
Brian Selfon spent years working in the criminal justice field, and he brings that knowledge to bear in his debut, about a family of money launderers whose lives are upended when a bag goes missing.
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50 States, 50 Scares
Before you pick up one of these hair-raising, shiver-inducing novels, you’re going to want to close the curtains and check the locks (twice).
‘I Came From Nothing’: An Undocumented Writer Defies the Odds
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, a National Book Award finalist for “The Undocumented Americans,” talks immigration, her unconventional approach to nonfiction and why impostor syndrome doesn’t faze her.
New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Extraordinary Women to Van Gogh’s Letters
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In Don DeLillo’s New Novel, Technology Is Dead. Civilization Might Be, Too.
“The Silence” invites readers to consider whether the connected life has left us more disconnected than ever.
'Where The Wild Ladies Are' Is Perfect Halloween Reading
Aoko Matsuda's gently supernatural story collection — all about women who are something more than they seem — gets its unearthly feel not from jump scares, but from the quality of the writing.
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The Pious French Poet Who Palled Around With Picasso and Apollinaire
In “Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters,” Rosanna Warren retraces the colorful history of a now largely forgotten figure of French modernism who was surrounded by famous friends.
The Organization System That Changed the World? It’s Thousands of Years Old
In “A Place for Everything,” Judith Flanders, a British social historian, traces the revolutionary history of alphabetical order.
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