‘Seventh Grade! Now in WonkyVision!’
In Rob Harrell’s “Wink,” middle school social drama and an eyesight-threatening cancer are a lot for one kid to handle. Humor helps.
A.O. Scott on the Work of Wallace Stegner
Scott discusses his first in a series of essays about American writers, and David Kamp talks about “Sunny Days: The Children’s Television Revolution That Changed America.”
Beautiful Places to Die
In these new crime novels, the settings — mountain hamlets, Antarctic ice fields, French sheep farms — may look bucolic. They are not.
Hell House
In Dennis Mahoney’s “Ghostlove,” a young man becomes involved with the dead woman haunting his brownstone.
Three New Memoirs Bring the Farm to the Page
From Depression-era Wisconsin to 21st-century Wales, the pastures that have shaped the people who tended them.
New in Paperback: ‘Mistress of the Ritz’ and ‘No Visible Bruises’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Revisiting the Arab Spring, in Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Considering Whether Writers Are Born or Made
In this week’s issue, A.O. Scott writes about Wallace Stegner. In 1948, Stegner wrote for the Book Review about universities as a place for training writers.
Stacey Abrams Has a Message for You: Get Involved
She isn’t Georgia’s governor — she will tell you herself — but in “Our Time Is Now” she still has a blueprint for effective leadership.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'This Is One Way To Dance' Explores A Life Straddling Congruent Realities
Essayist Sejal Shah brings important, refreshing, and depressing observations about what it means to have dark skin and an "exotic" name, when the only country you've ever lived in is America.
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Why Michael Eric Dyson Would Demote ‘Heart of Darkness’ From the Canon
“It’s done so much damage in fashioning savage notions of Africa.”
Hilarie Burton Morgan Asked Fans to Shop Local. They Listened.
Oblong Books is closed to the public, but star power helps keep the lights on in the Hudson Valley’s literary hub.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: America’s No. 1 Literary Celebrity
In his new biography, “Cross of Snow,” Nicholas A. Basbanes makes a case for the man and the poet.
'The Vanishing Half' Counts The Terrible Costs Of Bigotry And Secrecy
Brit Bennett's triumphant new novel follows two light-skinned black sisters whose lives take very different paths; you'll keep turning pages not to find out what happens, but who these women are.
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With These Literary Puzzlers, the Game’s Afoot (and in Hand)
Need something to occupy your mind and your time? Consider two book-themed diversions that grab your attention using post or pixel.
Russian-American Masha Gessen Sees Putin In Trump, Trouble In Future
The New Yorker journalist says Putin and Trump were elected president without really wanting the job. They ran "not for president but for autocrat," and did not expect to settle for anything less.
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Birds Do It. People, Too. Is Migration Simply Natural for All Species?
In her latest book, “The Next Great Migration,” the science journalist Sonia Shah traces the global movements of humans today to age-old patterns in other species.
‘The Next Great Migration,’ by Sonia Shah: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Next Great Migration,” by Sonia Shah
‘The Deviant’s War,’ by Eric Cervini: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Deviant’s War,” by Eric Cervini
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