Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Horror: Spine-Chilling and Flesh-Crawling: The Latest Horror Fiction
There’s something for everyone here: 17th-century English witches, haunted portraits, Victorian ghost tales and a moldering Eastern European castle.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: The Author Who Tased Himself to Reveal the Failures of High-Tech Policing
In “Thin Blue Lie” Matt Stroud untangles the web of law enforcement agencies, for-profit corporations and politicians that have put technology at the center of policing.
'Now, Now, Louison' Attempts To Bring Art, And Its Artist, To Life
Writer and gallery owner Jean Frémon inhabits artist Louise Bourgeois as if she herself were writing this novel-cum-memoir, opening up our understanding of both the artist and her art.
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By the Book: By the Book: Richard Powers
The author, most recently, of “The Overstory” was from an early age a “fan of awe”: “I liked reading about diatoms and stars, things from four hundred million years ago or a hundred thousand years from now.”
Fiction: Salman Rushdie Reviews a Sweeping Debut About the Roots of Modern Zambia
In “The Old Drift,” Namwali Serpell spins a multigenerational, magical-realist tale of the East African nation from colonialism to the future.
By the Book: By the Book: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The scholar and host of the PBS series “Reconstruction,” whose latest books are “Dark Sky Rising” and “Stony the Road,” is a productive beach reader: “I read more during two months on the Vineyard … than I do the entire rest of the year.”
Could A Novel Lead Someone To Kill? 'Murder By The Book' Explores The Notion
Author Claire Harman writes that one reason François Benjamin Courvoisier gave for why he murdered his boss Lord William Russell in 1840 was that he wanted to model himself on a book character.
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Nonfiction: The Two Artist Couples Who Helped Launch American Modernism
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand and Rebecca Salsbury coupled, fought and made some of the most influential photographs and paintings of the 20th century. “Foursome,” by Carolyn Burke, tells their story.
In 'Who Killed My Father,' A Son Renders His Father Seen And Heard
There is a universality to Édouard Louis' story — the child's longing for acceptance contrasted with the mature son's painful journey to understand why his father behaved as he did.
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Fiction: ‘The Women’s War’ Is an Epic Feminist Fantasy for the #MeToo Era
In Jenna Glass’s new novel, a spell giving women control over their own fertility has far-reaching consequences.
'What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker' Is A Powerful Look At One Black Man's Life
Writer, critic and humorist Damon Young chronicles his efforts to endure the battles that come with being black; the beauty of his book is that he never tries to make it comfortable for his audience.
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Nonfiction: Moving Alabama Into the Modern Age
Doug Jones’s “Bending Toward Justice” is about his role in the famous 1963 church-bombing case and his experience running for senator in 2017.
Fiction: Was That Really Me? A Novelist Discovers Her Younger Self
Siri Hustvedt’s autobiographical novel “Memories of the Future” uses a newly discovered journal to reconnect with her early days in New York.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: Where to Have Your Existential Crisis: Ann Arbor or Rome?
Brad Leithauser’s comic novel “The Promise of Elsewhere” sends a depressed American academic in flight to Europe. So why does he wind up in Greenland?
New Climate Books Stress We Are Already Far Down The Road To A Different Earth
David Wallace-Wells' The Uninhabitable Earth and Nathaniel Rich's Losing Earth offer valuable perspectives on climate change — if we're committed to being adult enough to face the future.
(Image credit: Alexander Gerst/ESA/Getty Images)
'Sing To It' Is Worth The Wait
Amy Hempel's first book of new material in 14 years showcases her immense talents as a fiction writer. It's a powerful collection of stories about uneasy, unmoored, even desperate people.
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'Giraffes On Horseback Salad' Tells The Lost Story Of Harpo Marx And Salvador Dalí
When Salvador Dalí met Harpo Marx, he was so infatuated that he wrote a treatment for a surreal Marx Brothers film, Giraffes on Horseback Salad. The film didn't fly, but this graphic novel does.
(Image credit: Quirk Books)
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