Inside the List: Sally Rooney’s ‘Normal People’ Debuts on the List at No. 3
Big crowds at her book-tour events are buoying sales for the Irish writer dubbed the ‘Salinger for the Snapchat generation.’
Nonfiction: Justice Is Blind. Sometimes, So Is Prejudice.
Jennifer L. Eberhardt’s “Biased” examines the unwitting ways that racial categories and stereotypes continue to affect human behavior.
From Our Archives: Revisiting a Mother and Daughter in Vivian Gornick’s “Fierce Attachments”
Vivian Gornick’s 1987 memoir “Fierce Attachments” traces the volatile relationship she had with her mother.
New in Paperback: ‘Property,’ ‘Two Sisters’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Fiction: In This Novel, the Fate of an Indian Slum Is in the Hands of Its Women
In Mathangi Subramanian’s debut, “A People’s History of Heaven,” five girls represent the fate of a nation.
Fiction: A TV Comic Invites a Young Staffer to His Country House. Then Something Funny Doesn’t Happen.
In Erin Somers’s debut, “Stay Up With Hugo Best,” a 60-something retired late-night host invites his 29-year-old writers’ assistant to New England for a long weekend.
Help Desk: No to Pseudoscientific Diets! Yes to Less Stress About Food!
Judith Newman’s Help Desk column tackles myths about what we eat, how we gain weight and what we see when we look in the mirror.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'The Heartland' Aims To Debunk Myths About The Midwest
Though leaving no answer to the region's political future, author Kristin L. Hoganson writes a deeply researched book that will remain useful and readable long after this election cycle.
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Fiction: Two Novels for and About Lost Millennial Women
The directionless heroines of Jen Beagin’s “Vacuum in the Dark” and Halle Butler’s “The New Me” follow in the footsteps of Ottessa Moshfegh and Catherine Lacey.
By the Book: By the Book: Gary Snyder
The poet, essayist and environmentalist cites Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” as an inspiration: “Ovid in a sense tried to write the entire Roman story. I take it as a challenge to look for the storyteller of the planet.”
'The Beneficiary' Weighs The Emotional Heft Of Inheritance
Janny Scott, a biographer and award-winning reporter for The New York Times, has written a vivid and penetrating memoir about her own illustrious family.
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In 'Nanaville,' Anna Quindlen Writes Of Her Adventures In Grandparenting
For decades, Quindlen has been channeling Baby Boomers' concerns, from motherhood and life-work balance to aging and downsizing. Her new book comes with a stern warning: Grandparents, know thy place.
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Nonfiction: A 500-Year-Old Tale of Intrigue, Greed and Betrayal
In “The Lost Gutenberg,” Margaret Davis traces the colorful history of a rare Bible through its owners.
Nonfiction: An Earlier Age When the United States Kept Immigrants Out
Michael Dobbs’s “The Unwanted” describes the plight of European Jews trying to escape extermination by the Nazis.
Nonfiction: A Passion for Punctuation Meets a Love for All Things Greek
Mary Norris’s “Greek to Me” is an exuberant account of a decades-long obsession with a culture and its language.
'The Moment Of Lift' Is More Of A Whisper Than A Call To Action
If Melinda Gates had fully owned her goal — writing a book that would strengthen some readers' abortion-rights convictions and open others' minds — she would have called for greater advocacy.
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Poetry: In ‘Swift,’ David Baker’s Poetry Stitches the Fractured World Into Art
For almost 40 years, in the extreme suburbs and the diminishing countryside, Baker has worked to see and describe things as though for the first time.
In McEwan's Latest, The 'Machine' Is Too Much Like You
Ian McEwan imagines an alternate, technologically-advanced 1982 England in his new novel, in which the development of lifelike, artificially intelligent cyborgs leads to some uncomfortable questions.
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