An Unflinching Child’s-Eye View of Sexual Abuse
The 10-year-old narrator of Kimberly Brubaker Bradley’s “Fighting Words” eases her way into sharing the awful truth of what she and her sister survived.
In Jorie Graham’s Poetry, the End of Days and the Pleasures of the Flow
“Runaway,” Graham’s 15th collection, considers the apocalypse, beautifully.
Long Before Cambridge Analytica And Facebook, Simulmatics Linked Data And Politics
In If Then, author and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore unearths Simulmatics' story and makes the argument that the company paved the way for our 21st-century obsession with data and prediction.
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What if We Pursued Vigilante Justice on Reality TV?
In “Payback,” the veteran novelist Mary Gordon gives score-settling a modern twist.
'The Contradictions' Chronicles A Classic College Experience
Sophie Yanow's new graphic novel chronicles her time studying abroad in Paris; it's not suspenseful or eventful, but Yanow's combination of perception and humility makes for an engaging read.
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'Arrow' Creates Beauty From What Hurts Us Most
Sumita Chakraborty's new poetry collection grapples with the death of the poet's sister; like the arrow of the title, which can be a weapon of Cupid or of war, these poems contain both love and death.
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Why Are We in the West So Weird? A Theory
In his groundbreaking new book, “The WEIRDest People in the World,” the anthropologist Joseph Henrich argues that people from Western countries have a unique psychology.
Bodies of Evidence
In her new Crime column, Marilyn Stasio ranges from an Alpine chalet to the sunny streets of Los Angeles to the venerable British city of Bath.
Brian Stelter on Fox News and Reed Hastings on Netflix
Stelter talks about “Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth” and Reed Hastings discusses “No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention.”
A Book About Nature That Is So Much More
In “World of Wonders” the poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil tells stories of her life through the natural world that surrounded her and gave her solace.
Stories of Then That Still Hold Up Now
Margaret Atwood, Héctor Tobar, Thomas Mallon and Brenda Wineapple on older political novels they admire that have a lot to say about the world today.
In 'On All Fronts,' CNN's Clarissa Ward Showcases Gravity, Costs Of A Reporting Life
Ward says she didn't know as a journalist she would "have my heart broken in a hundred different ways, that I would lose friends and watch children die and grow to feel like an alien in my own skin."
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Two Books Wonder: How Long Until You Fall in Love With a Robot?
In Debora L. Spar’s “Work Mate Marry Love” and Jenny Kleeman’s “Sex Robots and Vegan Meat,” two approaches to thinking about what our intimate lives will look like in the future.
Remembering the ‘Good War’ and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
New in Paperback: ‘Nothing to See Here’ and ‘Red at the Bone’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Accused of Ruining Popcorn, Cass Sunstein Wants to Repent
In “Too Much Information,” President Obama’s onetime regulatory chief takes another look at whether disclosing information — including calorie counts — is always a good thing.
Jane Fonda Likes to Curl Up With a Good Book, Among the Dead
“I like reading in graveyards leaning against old gravestones, though I haven’t had many opportunities of late.”
In ‘Hoax,’ Brian Stelter Ventures Where No Author Has Gone Before
He’d missed his deadline and then the pandemic arrived — so CNN’s chief media correspondent wrote about it.
Novel of Multitudes Sings for a Fading Dream of National Belonging
“Homeland Elegies,” by Ayad Akhtar, considers the many contradictions and ambiguities of being an American Muslim after 9/11.
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