Why Have Novels About Royalty Stormed the Y.A. Best-Seller Lists?
Ruthless and treacherous, the characters in these books may be kings, queens and pawns, but they act a lot like the people at a teenager’s lunch table.
New in Paperback: ‘The Price You Pay,’ ‘No Good Alternative’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
A Recipe for ‘Heartburn’
The cartoonist Will McPhail works through his feelings about Nora Ephron’s classic divorce book by baking a pie.
Jo Nesbo, Master of Norway Noir, Returns With His Creepiest Yet
Nesbo’s new novel, “The Knife,” made Marilyn Stasio’s skin crawl, so she followed it with less grisly fare, including a mystery set at a summer cottage in Maine.
The Literary Battle of the Sexes, 1907-Style
That year seems to have been a turning point: For the first time, books by women sold as well — or better than — books by men.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Stephen King Reviews Laura Lippman’s New Novel, ‘Lady in the Lake’
An intrepid newspaper reporter — juggling work, desire, ambition and family — investigates two murders in mid-1960s Baltimore.
34 Ways To Beat The System In 'Raised In Captivity'
Chuck Klosterman's new collection of "fictional nonfiction" is full of people who subvert expectations and find ways around the systems that rule our lives. Also, there's a puma in an airplane toilet.
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Chuck Klosterman Likes Writers Who Aren’t Self-Absorbed Sociopaths
The cultural critic and author, most recently, of the story collection “Raised in Captivity” also says that he trusts librarians’ literary opinions: “They have no agenda and plenty of free time.”
Letters Serve To Bond Time-Traveling Rivals In 'This Is How You Lose The Time War'
Rather than the time travel or war, the thrill of Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's book becomes the connection between two lonely professional killers with the ability to inscribe letters on lava.
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For The 'Nickel Boys,' Life Isn't Worth 5 Cents
Colson Whitehead's harrowing new novel is based on a true story about a brutally abusive reform school in Florida where the grounds were pocked with the unmarked graves of the boys who died there.
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'Escalante's Dream' Retraces The Steps Of The 'Spanish Lewis And Clark'
After a cancer diagnosis, author and noted mountaineer David Roberts sets out on the trail of Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, remaining dutiful to the route some 240 years later.
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George Takei Recalls Time In An American Internment Camp In 'They Called Us Enemy'
Through his graphic memoir, the Star Trek actor-turned-author shows that while it may be too late to undo the WWII incarceration of Japanese-Americans, it's not too late to learn from it.
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The Kids Are Not All Right
Three summer thrillers — by Ruth Ware, Adrian McKinty and Alex North — feature children in peril.
Readers Add to the List of Best Memoirs Since 1969
Responses to a recent issue of the Sunday Book Review.
'Jazz From Detroit' Offers A Mosaic Portrait Of A Larger Scene
Mark Stryker covered jazz and its people for the Detroit Free Press for decades. He uses his reporter's eye and critic's ear to chronicle the musicians from the city who made their mark on the world.
Rooted In History, 'The Nickel Boys' Is A Great American Novel
Colson Whitehead's deeply affecting new novel is based on the true story of a segregated reform school in Florida where African American boys were brutalized and possibly murdered.
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In This Novel, a Black South African Becomes a Domestic Worker — in Her Son’s Home
Bianca Marais’s “If You Want to Make God Laugh” shines a light on the racial inequalities of the post-apartheid era.
They’re Not as Famous as Lewis and Clark, but They Should Be
David Roberts’s “Escalante’s Dream” retraces the 1,700-mile journey of an expedition led by two Spanish friars in the 18th-century Southwest.
A Novel Based on the Life of Peggy Guggenheim
Courtney Maum’s “Costalegre” is narrated by the 15-year-old daughter of an American art collector, and set in the Mexican jungle.
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