Tragicomic Fiction That Masquerades as an Extended Lawyer Joke
Jorge Comensal’s first novel, “The Mutations,” features an attorney rendered mute by tongue cancer who finds comfort in the profane squawks of a parrot.
Don’t Hate Kevin Wilson, but He Wrote His Best Seller in 10 Days
Holed up in a highway-adjacent rental cabin, there was nothing else to do but get to work.
In 'Canyon Dreams,' A Navajo Town Struggles To Survive In An Often Hostile World
Journalist Michael Powell's book is about basketball the same way that Buzz Bissinger's Friday Night Lights is about football — sports are the ostensible focus, but the real interest is the community.
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'They Will Drown' Isn't A Whodunit, It's A Who-Is-It?
Johannes Anyuru's unusual speculative mystery They Will Drown in Their Mothers' Tears follows two seemingly ordinary (at first) Swedish citizens dealing with the aftermath of a shooting.
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Murder at Lake Maggiore
Piero Chiara’s existential thriller “The Bishop’s Bedroom” explores a dangerous game of deception in the years just after World War II.
When You Can’t Afford a Jane Austen Original
A new coffee table book revisits the publishing histories of novels like Pride & Prejudice, Emma and Sense & Sensibility.
The Man Who Was American Music
James Kaplan’s “Irving Berlin” traces a celebrated life that extended over 100 years.
Songs of Survival and Rebellion
Their music spans genres and generations, but six iconic performers strike a similar chord in their new memoirs. The dominant note? Honesty.
What Tweets and Emojis Did to the Novel
The digital age ushered in new ways of reading — and revived old ones (the scroll and the ideogram). Could it also explain the rise of autofiction? Charles Finch considers.
'From Russia With Blood' Doesn't Capture The Messy Nature Of Russian Politics
Buzzfeed's Heidi Blake fails to support a dubious argument, but the book is worth reading for its recap of more than a dozen murder and suspicious death stories during a two-decade period.
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Instead of a New Album, Rihanna Drops a Book
A large-scale memoir-in-images, simply titled “Rihanna,” is the latest in the musician-turned-mogul’s luxury offerings.
Design That’s Got Users in Mind
In “User Friendly,” Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant recount America’s long history of making products that take people’s needs into account.
Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars
“The Corner That Held Them,” by Sylvia Townsend Warner, and “Medieval Bodies,” by Jack Hartnell, consider the pleasures and perils of life in the Middle Ages.
‘Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises,’ by Jodie Adams Kirshner: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises,’ by Jodie Adams Kirshner
‘The Second Sleep,’ by Robert Harris: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Second Sleep,” by Robert Harris
Birthing Bunnies: An 18th-Century Woman’s Bizarre Medical Hoax
Dexter Palmer’s novel “Mary Toft; Or, The Rabbit Queen” spins an actual case of scientific fraud into a cracking tale about the nature of belief.
‘Broke’ Chronicles a City Out of Cash and Awash in Desperation
The new book by Jodie Adams Kirshner follows seven residents of bankrupt Detroit, exposing the effects of decades of disinvestment and failed urban policy.
New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From ‘Get Out’ to Richard Avedon
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
It’s 1468. Why Does the Village Priest Have an iPhone?
At first glance, Robert Harris’s new novel, “The Second Sleep,” appears to be set in 15th-century Britain. Then things get tricky.
Meet the Levy Family. Their History Is Our History.
A writer tells the story of a region through the lens of one well-documented clan.
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