An Epidemic of Violence We Never Discuss
Rachel Louise Snyder’s “No Visible Bruises” recounts the horror of domestic violence in all its forms and argues for a more systematic approach to this abuse.
A Hunk and a Savant Walk Into a Poetry Class. …
Lucy Ives’s debut novel, “Loudermilk,” satirizes both “bro” culture and the culture of creative writing programs in one fell swoop.
Who Writes American History? And How?
Readers respond to Joseph J. Ellis’s review of Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming.”
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Finding Mercy in the Wake of the Charleston Massacre
An intimate account of the 2015 hate crime and its aftermath, “Grace Will Lead Us Home,” by Jennifer Berry Hawes, explores how those affected struggled to carry on.
New in Paperback: ‘Amity and Prosperity,’ ‘The Great Believers’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
New on the Fiction List This Week: ‘Ask Again, Yes’
Mary Beth Keane was researching a historical novel when “real life kept intervening,” so she wrote a contemporary saga of suburban New York instead.
'Life With Picasso' Stands As An Invaluable Work Of Art History
Newly reissued, the intellectual heft of Françoise Gilot's now classic memoir is in its art criticism, even as its emotional arc lies in Picasso and Gilot's unequal romance.
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'The Plaza' Is A Nostalgic Look At The History Of New York's Most Famous Hotel
Julie Satow's book reads like the biography of a distant relative as much as the history of a landmark building; the author argues that no other building so directly reflects the city itself.
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By the Book: James Ellroy
The Los Angeles crime novelist, whose new book is “This Storm,” is no fan of Cormac McCarthy’s work: “McCarthy fails to employ quotation marks. Neither did William Faulkner, another cat I don’t dig.”
The Making of ‘1984,’ George Orwell’s Nightmare Vision of a World Without Truth
“The Ministry of Truth,” by Dorian Lynskey, is a “biography” of the 1949 novel, an enduring icon of state power devoid of moral principle and human concern.
Ebola, H.I.V., Spanish Flu, SARS — the 20th Century’s Deadliest Hits
In “The Pandemic Century” Mark Honigsbaum covers nine outbreaks that shaped how we think and respond to diseases.
'A War For Kindness' Favors The Practical Over Polemical
If you want a clarion call to action, Jamil Zaki's new book might not be it. But if you want a wide-ranging practical guide to making the world better, then you're in luck.
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'On Earth' Is Gorgeous All The Way Through
Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a painful but extraordinary coming-of-age story, about a young Vietnamese American writer whose fractured family was torn by their experiences during the Vietnam War.
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In 'City Of Girls,' The Breezy, Bold Best Days Of Our Lives
Elizabeth Gilbert's new novel is set in the New York theater community of the 1940s — an effervescent golden age for the women who congregate at the offbeat Lily Playhouse.
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The Soviet Union’s Jewish Tolstoy — Censored in Life, Now Revived
Alexandra Popoff has written a biography of Vasily Grossman, the Soviet writer whose masterpiece, “Life and Fate,” compared Stalin’s regime to Hitler’s.
James Ellroy Is Back, and His Los Angeles Is Darker Than Ever
His new novel, “This Storm,” leads off Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column. To recover, she sends readers to Cara Black’s Paris and Martin Walker’s Périgord.
Expat, Immigrant, Migrant, Refugee: Why ‘This Land Is Our Land’ No Matter the Label
In his new book, Suketu Mehta, who came to the United States from India as a child, delivers a deeply felt corrective to the public rhetoric on immigrants — who they are and why they come.
An Immigrant Yearns For Connection In 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'
Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong's words are mighty, teasing and overpowering in his autobiographical novel, written as a letter from a son to his illiterate mother.
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'Patsy' Discovers Her Dreams Don't Match Reality
Nicole Dennis-Benn packs a lot of uncomfortable truths into this novel about a Jamaican woman who emigrates to New York looking for an old love and a new life, leaving her mother and daughter behind.
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