Disaster May Upend Reality, but What Is ‘Real’ Anyway?
In “The Unreality of Memory,” the poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert considers our psychological relationship to calamity.
'Caste' Argues Its Most Violent Manifestation Is In Treatment Of Black Americans
Isabel Wilkerson's second book is a masterwork of writing — a profound achievement of scholarship and research that stands, also, as a triumph of both visceral storytelling and cogent analysis.
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'The First Sister' Is Stylish, Substantial — And Very Cool — Space Opera
Linden A. Lewis's debut novel — first in a trilogy — mixes swashbuckling, social commentary and compelling queer characters in its tale of three warring factions in a spacefaring society.
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3 Graphic Novel Detective Stories
Dynamic duos set out to solve mysteries for others and end up uncovering truths about themselves.
'You Had Me At Hola' Had Us Right From The Beginning
Alexis Daria's soapy, sizzling new novel follows two telenovela actors who fall for each other while playing bitter exes — and have to figure out how to balance private love and public stardom.
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Three New Books by Women in the American Political Sphere
Memoirs by Representative Ilhan Omar, the political analyst Tiffany Cross and the former congresswoman Katie Hill recount trials, victories and hopes for changing the country.
Isabel Wilkerson Talks About ‘Caste’
Wilkerson describes the ideas about race in America that fuel her new book, and David Hill discusses “The Vapors.”
Hot and Bothered: Four New Romance Novels
Looking for a pitch-perfect summer escape? We’ve got some recommendations.
New in Paperback: ‘Around the World in 80 Trees’ and ‘The Truths We Hold’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Three New Memoirs Offer a Glimpse Into the Writer’s Mind
Literary biographies take you from the ’70s New York underground to a contemporary writer’s residency at Google, recalling all the verses and prose along the way.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
'Tomboyland' Stresses The Importance Of Roots — And Knowing When To Grow Up And Away
Throughout her essays, Melissa Faliveno is constantly straddling blurry lines, never willing to let any of her topics lie comfortably still, always turning them over to look at another facet.
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Edmund White Thinks Most People Misread ‘Lolita’
“Nabokov’s job in the book is to make you like the monstrous Humbert Humbert. In the 1960s readers were too swinging to see how evil he was and now readers are too prudish to see how charming he can be.”
Experiencing War Far From the Battlefield
Two new books look at World War II from the perspectives of outsiders on the fringes of conflict.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Whatever You're Expecting, 'Harrow The Ninth' Is Not That Kind Of Book
Whatever you expected from Tamsyn Muir's followup to her lesbian-necromancers-in-space epic Gideon the Ninth, this is not that book — it's something wilder, darker and much, much weirder.
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‘Luster,’ by Raven Leilani: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Luster,” by Raven Leilani
Unfortunately, Eddie S. Glaude Jr.’s Book is Well-Timed
This Princeton professor was going to write a biography of James Baldwin. A violent encounter between the police and a Black man put his book on a different track.
You Can’t Avoid Death, but You Can Make It Easier
In Karolina Waclawiak’s novel “Life Events,” a “death doula” struggles to detach from her patients.
In ‘Luster,’ Young Black Women Feel Uneasy in a White American Home
Raven Leilani’s debut novel follows an interracial, intergenerational affair as it leads to an unusual redefinition of family.
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