A Spellbinding Debut Leaps Across Genres to Recreate the Confusion of Trauma
Kate Reed Petty’s “True Story,” focuses on the rippling, decades-long impact from a high school sexual assault.
Does ‘His & Hers’ Mean Cozy Domestic Bliss? Not in This Book
Alice Feeney’s detective story shows just how small the world is for people who would rather not find each other.
On the ‘Mitchellverse’ and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Think Fantasy Is Kid Stuff? Try 'Trouble The Saints'
Alaya Dawn Johnson's new novel is set in New York on the eve of World War II, in a world where a few lucky (well, not that lucky) people are gifted with "saints' hands," that give them strange skills.
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Jacob Soboroff Saw Kids in Cages. Then He Started Talking — and Writing.
In his new best seller about the practice of family separation, the NBC News correspondent does not mince words.
An Elegant, Ice-Cold Thriller Served Straight Up With a Twist
In Stan Parish’s new novel, “Love and Theft,” a Vegas jewel heist goes off perfectly. Or does it?
The Last Book That Made Aimee Bender Laugh Out Loud
“Especially the most amazingly weird and right sentence with ‘lasagna’ in it.”
‘The Pull of the Stars,’ by Emma Donoghue: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Pull of the Stars,” by Emma Donoghue
‘The Unidentified,’ by Colin Dickey: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Unidentified,” by Colin Dickey
Zadie Smith Hopscotches From The Personal To The Political In 'Intimations'
Smith began Intimations: Six Essays at the onset of the pandemic and finished it shortly after George Floyd's killing. Although only 100 pages, there's something worth quoting on virtually every page.
Exhausting Effect Of FOIA Requests Evident In 'Baseless'
Nicholson Baker's book misses the mark in an aim to take readers on a quest to discover if the U.S. used biological weapons developed in the '50s — and to examine the failings of public records law.
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Where Evil Lurks
The latest crop of horror fiction includes “Malorie” — Josh Malerman’s sequel to “Bird Box” — as well as “Mexican Gothic,” “Wonderland” and more.
Combining Indictment With Insight, A Historian Offers Context For The Age Of Trump
Anne Applebaum writes in Twilight of Democracy that heir to fears and hatreds, even advanced societies are straining under repeated blows: protracted war, economic disruptions, migration, a pandemic.
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A Woman Who Resisted the Japanese Military
Robert J. Mrazek’s “The Indomitable Florence Finch” is the story of a Filipino woman who saved American lives, survived torture and lived to be 101.
The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak
In “How You Say It,” Katherine Kinzler focuses on linguistic discrimination, how your accent can determine the way you are perceived.
The Real 'Hamnet' Died Centuries Ago, But This Novel Is Timeless
Maggie O'Farell's new novel confront's a parent's worst nightmare: The loss of a child. In this case, it's Hamnet, the real-life son of William Shakespeare, whose death may have inspired Hamlet.
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Two Syrian Brothers, One Longing to Stay, the Other Determined to Leave
“The Road From Raqqa,” by Jordan Ritter Conn, retraces the divergent paths of two siblings through Syria’s civil war.
Did America Use Bioweapons in Korea? Nicholson Baker Tried to Find Out
“Baseless,” the novelist’s new work of nonfiction, is the record of a frustrated investigation and an indictment of government secrecy.
New & Noteworthy, From Free Speech to True Crime
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
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