Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction
In “White Flights,” a new collection of essays, the novelist Jess Row plumbs the implicit whiteness of some of our most influential literature.
A Memoirist Remembers the Twinkle in Her Father’s Eye
In “Travel Light, Move Fast,” the fourth volume of Alexandra Fuller’s lacerating portrait of her family, she focuses on her loving and lighthearted father, Tim.
Thousands of Years Ago, a Different Sort of Brexit
In “Time Song: Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land,” Julia Blackburn seeks traces of Doggerland, which once linked Britain to the Continent.
All in the Family: A Multicultural Memoir
The novelist Susan Straight’s “In the Country of Women” celebrates the grit and generosity of a world atlas’s worth of female relatives.
A Suicide Bombing Shatters a Divided Family
In Rajia Hassib’s novel “A Pure Heart,” an Egyptologist excavates her own grief in the wake of the Arab Spring.
He Said, He Said: One Writer’s Account of His Second Act
“The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony” is Rick Moody’s attempt to come to terms with his troubled domestic life.
A Huckster for the Ages
Robert Wilson’s “Barnum: An American Life” doesn’t draw direct parallels with Donald Trump, but the links are certainly there.
Karl Marx: Prophet of the Present
A new biography by Shlomo Avineri argues for a reconsideration of one of the most influential political thinkers of recent times.
New & Noteworthy, From Prince Albert to a Bird’s-Eye View of the Apocalypse
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
How the War Against Truth Went Global
In “This Is Not Propaganda,” Peter Pomerantsev describes traveling the world to discover ever new forms of media manipulation.
Duplicity, Grace and Violence: New Spanish-Language Fiction
One novel transports readers to 1970s Spain, roiled by the Basque militants; another is about a Spanish-born MI6 agent; a third follows a political prisoner in Uruguay.
A Nigerian-American Bildungsroman, in Mormon Country
Tope Folarin’s debut novel, “A Particular Kind of Black Man,” stages a first-generation coming-of-age in white conservative America.
Is There Still Sex in the City? Not So Much, Apparently
In her new book, Candace Bushnell — now middle-aged — dives back into New York City dating life.
Burned Out By Dating Apps? 'The Right Swipe' Will Relight Your Fire
Alisha Rai's new romance is a testament to the difficulty of modern dating, as the CEO of a successful dating app realizes she's been ghosted by the celebrity spokesman of her biggest business rival.
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'Gods Of The Upper Air' Traces The Birth Of Cultural Anthropology
Charles King tells the story of Franz Boas' powerful challenge to racial science — and of how others like Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston contributed to that project.
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Self/Made Makes Questioning Reality a Fun Way To Spend An Afternoon
In Matt Groom's trippy comic, a warrior in a fantasy kingdom discovers she's not a real person — instead, she's an NPC, a non-player character in a video game. But unlike most NPCs, she's self-aware.
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Jia Tolentino on the ‘Unlivable Hell’ of the Web and Other Millennial Conundrums
In “Trick Mirror,” the New Yorker staff writer delivers essays on everything from online self-exposure to drug-induced euphoria and the scam economy.
Disaster Is On The Horizon In Blood-Soaked 'Dark Age'
The latest installment in Pierce Brown's epic Roman-in-space saga Red Rising finds our hero overthrown and banished from the Republic he founded, and teetering dangerously close to villainy.
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Revisiting Jill Johnston’s Critique of Robert Bly and ‘Iron John’
In 1992, Jill Johnston wrote for the Book Review about Robert Bly’s 1990 book “Iron John,” in which he analyzed classic fairy tales and applied them to 20th-century masculinity.
The Fight for the Supreme Court
Carl Hulse talks about “Confirmation Bias,” and De’Shawn Charles Winslow discusses “In West Mills.”
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