Decades After Two Murders, an Appalachian Town Grapples With the Crimes
In “The Third Rainbow Girl,” Emma Copley Eisenberg investigates the 1980 killings of two women hitchhiking to a festival in West Virginia.
'The Majesties' Is Disturbing, Yet Shockingly Enjoyable
Tiffany Tsao's novel explores the dark secrets of the wealthy Chinese-Indonesian Sulinado family, who fall victim to one of their own when daughter Estella poisons the entire clan at a family dinner.
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Pablo Neruda Saved Thousands of War Refugees. Isabel Allende Imagines Two of Them.
Based on true events around the Spanish Civil War, Allende’s novel “A Long Petal of the Sea” explores the lives of exiles.
'Cleanness' Revisits Familiar Ground, Beautifully
Garth Greenwell's new story collection — like his previous novel — follows young, gay American men teaching English in Bulgaria. It's part heartbreaking, part forward-looking, and all beautiful.
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‘American Dirt’ Plunges Readers Into the Border Crisis
Jeanine Cummins’s third novel follows a mother and son on their harrowing attempt to escape from Mexico, cartel assassins at their heels.
'Little Gods' Reminds Us Some Questions Are Better Left Unasked
Meng Jin's new novel shows us a complex woman through the eyes of her husband, her daughter, and her daughter's nanny — all of whom see different, sometimes contradictory facets of her character.
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Americans on a Financial ‘Tightrope’
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn talk about their new book, and Daniel Susskind discusses “A World Without Work.”
‘Cleanness,’ by Garth Greenwell: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Cleanness,” by Garth Greenwell
‘Abigail,’ by Magda Szabo: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Abigail,” by Magda Szabo
We Loved the Book and the Movie
Here are a few possible directions “Little Women” might go next.
Why Do Trump Supporters Support Trump?
Michael Lind’s “The New Class War” sees class divisions at the heart of America’s current political divide.
In Magda Szabo’s Magical Novel, a Statue Protects Students From the Nazis
Published in Hungary in 1970 and now translated into English for the first time, “Abigail” is a fable-like story set at a girls’ boarding school during wartime.
Three Books on the Enigma That Is Modern Russia
The lawlessness and corruption that characterize Vladimir Putin’s regime are examined by three authors from many angles, and from top to bottom.
Growing Up in the Margins Without Being Marginalized
The narrator of Jessica Andrews’s first novel, “Saltwater,” is a university graduate from the working class, trying to find her place in the wider world.
In a Dying Country, Garth Greenwell’s Narrator Comes Alive
For the American hero of “Cleanness,” part of the allure of Bulgaria is that it is disintegrating around him.
I Can’t Afford These First Editions, but I Buy Them Anyway
Stephen Marche on why he collects rare books and why our culture undervalues them.
Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Wrong?
In “The Age of Entitlement,” Christopher Caldwell argues that the source of today’s political divisions can be found in the reforms of the 1960s.
New in Paperback: ‘The Source of Self-Regard’ and ‘Horizon’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Revisiting Robert Peace and Self-Invention
This week, Anand Giridharadas reviews “The New Class War,” by Michael Lind. In 2014, Giridharadas wrote for the Book Review about “The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace,” in which Jeff Hobbs wrote about his murdered college roommate.
What One Woman Packed and Another Woman Thought
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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