As a Father Lies Dying, His Family Reckons With Their Troubled Legacy
Jami Attenberg’s new novel, “All This Could Be Yours,” explores the lasting consequences of bad behavior.
A Romantic Comedy So Dark It Makes You Cry
The narrator of Lara Vapnyar’s “Divide Me by Zero” uses her dying mother’s unfinished math project to cope with two lovers, a husband and a stalled novel.
The First Arabic Novel to Win the International Booker Prize
Jokha Alharthi’s inventive multigenerational tale, “Celestial Bodies,” is also the first novel by an Omani woman to be translated into English.
3 Fresh New Romances For October
As the October days shorten, it's a good time to curl up with a romance novel — this month, we're featuring stories about people who defy traditional expectations to find their happy-ever-afters.
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She Made Thinking Exciting: The Life and Work of Susan Sontag
“Sontag,” Benjamin Moser’s new biography, is a skilled, lively book that works hard to capture a severely complex person.
In 'The Less People Know About Us' A Mysterious Identity Theft Hits Close To Home
Axton Betz-Hamilton was 12 when her family's mail began disappearing. Her memoir details what follows and, when she discovers the culprit, the painful process of collecting the pieces of her past.
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'Curious Toys' Gets Itself Into Unnecessary Trouble
Elizabeth Hand's new historical thriller has a compelling main character and vivid, carefully drawn settings — but its treatment of the story's murderous villain leaves an unpleasant aftertaste.
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In 'Reincarnation Stories,' Visual Exuberance Masks Artistic Care
Legendary underground cartoonist Kim Deitch's new book is packed with monkeys, cartoon magpies, and even Jesus; it starts with an account of killing time after eye surgery and gets wilder from there.
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For Some Horror Writers, Nothing Is Scarier Than a Changing Planet
While literary fiction often sidesteps the climate crisis, eco-horror is filling the breach.
It’s Fall, So the Best-Seller Lists Are Brimming With New Books
One of them, Jason Reynolds’s middle-grade novel “Look Both Ways,” is a National Book Award finalist.
What’s in the Murder Book? Marilyn Stasio Wants to Know.
Her latest Crime column features a cold case for Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch and whodunits from Susan Isaacs, Charles Todd and Deborah Crombie.
Thomas Chatterton Williams on ‘Unlearning Race’
Williams talks about his new memoir, “Self-Portrait in Black and White,” and Stephen Kinzer discusses “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.”
Movies Cast A Spell In 'Show People'
Author Michael Newton waxes rhapsodic in his new book about a century of acting, with a special fondness for performances about performance; it's taken for granted how much we love movies.
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When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr.
“The Fire Is Upon Us,” by Nicholas Buccola, is at once a biography of two leading American intellectuals and an in-depth look at their legendary 1965 debate over civil rights.
Dark Books for Dark Times
Read these spine-tingling works of science fiction and fantasy at your own risk.
Work in Progress
Ever wonder what other people are scribbling or typing feverishly? An artist takes a peek.
'Past Their Prime' At 20? Book Chronicles Attitudes Toward Female Aging In America
Known for the punch of her columns, The New York Times' Gail Collins sprinkles conversational, sardonic asides throughout No Stopping Us Now in an effort to keep the decades-long hike spry.
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New in Paperback: ‘Bowlaway’ and ‘Heart’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Echoes of Borges in a Novel of War-Torn Venezuela
Karina Sainz Borgo’s “It Would Be Night in Caracas” traces one woman’s grief against a backdrop of political chaos.
Looking Back at Amitav Ghosh’s ‘The Circle of Reason’
Ghosh’s 1986 debut tells the story of a young weaver accused of being a terrorist. Anthony Burgess, the author of “A Clockwork Orange,” reviewed it for us.
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