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.
Coming of Age Amid the Troubles
In “Inventory,” Darran Anderson sorts through the objects and memories of his 1980s Northern Ireland adolescence.
‘The Lost Pianos of Siberia,’ and the Lost Individuals Who Played Them
Sophy Roberts goes on a quest for a rare instrument, and discovers a vast, uncharted history along the way.
The Many Varieties of Donald Trump
Three new books analyze what the Trump presidency has meant for American politics and American society.
How Hitler Took the World Into War
Benjamin Carter Hett’s “The Nazi Menace” examines the path to World War II and German responsibility.
Why the Mueller Investigation Failed
Jeffrey Toobin’s “True Crimes and Misdemeanors” examines the battle over the Mueller report and how Donald Trump prevailed.
A Year After Toni Morrison's Death, Her Visions Of Love Stay With Us
Love is central to the work of Toni Morrison — she brought love to her examinations of Black life, and love itself was her enduring subject. But love isn't always a good or joyous thing in her work.
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In 'Afterland,' A World (Mostly) Without Men: Questions For Lauren Beukes
Lauren Beukes' new novel is set in a near future where a virus has killed off most of the men on Earth, and one woman is racing to free her young, immune son from the government and get him to safety.
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