New Israeli Fiction: A Reluctant Bride, a Brave Survivor and Fables for a Modern World
Originally written in Hebrew, these translations offer a look at humanity writ large.
What if You Could Go Back in Time to Stop Terrorists Before They Strike?
Johannes Anyuru’s new novel imagines a time traveler who alters the course of history.
What’s So Funny, Kid?
Some emotional predicaments we never grow out of. Hilarious new books by Bob Shea, Liz Climo and more mine them for cross-generational humor.
Kids Love Multi-Volume Series About Big Families. No Wonder.
The latest of Karina Yan Glaser’s Vanderbeekers books, featuring a large, biracial clan in Harlem, offers a case study in the pleasures of the familiar.
'In The Dream House' Invents A New Form Of Memoir To Convey A Haunting Nightmare
Under Carmen Maria Machado's narrative of a psychologically abusive relationship lies an academic view of female queerness, a play, a choose your own adventure book, a look at the mechanisms of abuse.
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Jenny Slate's 'Little Weirds' Is Just Not Weird Enough
The stand-up comic's essays have soft and lovely moments, steering readers toward finding their own vulnerabilities. But Slate is not as open to self-exposure on the page as she is on the stage.
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‘The Witches Are Coming’ by Lindy West: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Witches Are Coming,” by Lindy West.
‘In the Dream House’ by Carmen Maria Machado: An Excerpt
An excerpt from ‘In the Dream House’ by Carmen Maria Machado
New & Noteworthy, From Harold Bloom to the Women of Congress
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Battlefields: Recent Books in Military History
Thomas E. Ricks looks at accounts of an African-American fighter pilot, the European resistance, United States generals and more.
A Book Full of Reasons to Love Paris
In “The Seine: The River That Made Paris,” Elaine Sciolino traces the course of France’s iconic waterway, from source to sea, from past to present.
Love, Sex and Atom Bombs in a Debut Novel of the American West
Shannon Pufahl’s “On Swift Horses” weaves an entanglement of attractions in postwar California.
How Two Black Women a Century Apart Experience Racism
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s new novel, “The Revisioners,” is told from the perspectives of a freed slave and her present-day descendant.
Here Comes Lindy West, and She’s Holding a Broom
“Fine, if you insist,” West tells men in “The Witches Are Coming,” her new essay collection. “This is a witch hunt. We’re witches, and we’re hunting you.”
ISIS Lost Mosul in 2017, but the Story Began Thousands of Years Ago
James Verini’s “They Will Have to Die Now” describes the battle for Mosul and the region’s long history.
Carmen Maria Machado Opens Up About Her Domestic Abuse
Her debut memoir, “In the Dream House,” connects her adult traumas with her deepest childhood fears.
South American Literature’s Master of Malaise
Listlessness was Juan Carlos Onetti’s great theme. He ushered Spanish-language fiction into modernity and influenced writers from Julio Cortázar to Mario Vargas Llosa.
A Poet Maps the Landscapes of Memory
Charles Wright, who has gathered five decades of work in the hefty new volume “Oblivion Banjo,” is obsessed with his own past and the nature of time.
'The Great Pretender' Seeks The Truth About 'On Being Sane In Insane Places'
Journalist and Brain on Fire author Susannah Cahalan writes in an urgent, personal book that the '70s study by David Rosenhan had an outsized effect on psychiatry — and may have been fatally flawed.
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Grandparents Are Heroes, and Also Totally Normal People
New picture books celebrate the special bond between young people and their elders.
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