Sue Miller’s ‘Monogamy’ Begins With an Ending
When her husband dies suddenly, a woman reckons with the life they shared.
The Full Measure of America’s Farming and Food Crisis
In “Perilous Bounty,” Tom Philpott looks at the toll that industrial farming practices have taken on the health of the land.
Getting Lost In A Good Book — Literally — In 'Kind Of A Big Deal'
In Shannon Hale's new novel, a former child actor — who's finding her teen years challenging after a failed audition — discovers that she can physically enter books and become part of their stories.
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The World Of 'Elatsoe' Mixes Humor And Horror (And Ghost Dogs)
Darcie Little Badger's warm, spooky debut novel is set in a world just slightly off our own, where ghosts and fairies are real, and an Apache girl can pal around with the spirit of her childhood dog.
(Image credit: Levine Querido)
Peter Strzok, Notorious Ex-G-Man, Explains Himself And Takes Aim At Trump
Critics made the former counterintelligence official the face of what they called a conspiracy against Trump. No, Strzok writes in a new memoir titled Compromised — he did everything by the book.
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Grisly Slabs of Gothic Horror
These books — both fiction and nonfiction — celebrate the dark corners of our world.
Recreational Adrenaline: Three Sizzling New Thrillers
Late summer is supposed to be a slow time for publishers, but this year there’s plenty to get your heart racing.
Two Suicidal Teens, Four Possible Paths
Aaron and Tillie are strangers, until they meet on a bridge. Bill Konigsberg’s new novel explores where four different plotlines could take them.
A Son’s Future, a Father’s Final Down
In Jacqueline Woodson’s “Before the Ever After,” a boy struggles to move forward as his pro football star father’s memory fades.
Revisiting Carol Shields and the Everywoman
In 1994, Jay Parini wrote for the Book Review about Carol Shields’s novel “The Stone Diaries,” the fictional autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett as she navigates marriage and motherhood.
Life, and Other Interruptions: A Storyteller Explains ‘Why I Don’t Write’
Susan Minot’s new book is her second collection in 30 years. But that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been busy.
What’s In a Title?
It depends on where the author is in the creative process.
Jeffrey Toobin on Writing About Trump
Toobin talks about “True Crimes and Misdemeanors,” and Dayna Tortorici discusses Elena Ferrante’s “The Lying Life of Adults.”
The Men Who Reinvented Philosophy for Turbulent Times
In “Time of the Magicians,” Wolfram Eilenberger tells the story of four philosophers — Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer and Heidegger — who altered the way we see reality.
The Impossible Case of a Japanese Locked-Room Mystery
Marilyn Stasio recommends two recently reissued novels by Seishi Yokomizo, as well as the latest books from Denise Mina and T. Jefferson Parker.
New in Paperback: ‘The Travelers’ and ‘On Fire’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Want a Better Way to Think About Gender? Use Math
In “X+Y,” the mathematician Eugenia Cheng proposes using category theory to end the gender wars.
The Dangerous North Korea
Three new books examine one of the world’s most mysterious countries.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
In Capitalism’s Clutch, and Exploring Its Contradictions
With her new book, “Having and Being Had,” the essayist Eula Biss meditates on the lived experience of class and money in American culture.
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