A Debut Novel of Political and Personal Upheaval in Late-20th-Century Nigeria
Nnamdi Ehirim’s “Prince of Monkeys” witnesses a diverse group of friends navigating riots and their own comings-of-age in Lagos in the ’80s and ’90s.
George F. Will: By the Book
The political columnist and author, most recently, of “The Conservative Sensibility” has no love for Holden Caulfield: “Just what the world does not need: another sullen adolescent.”
Two Novels About Rape, Murder and Female Victims
Patrick McGuinness’s “Throw Me to the Wolves” and James Lasdun’s “Afternoon of a Faun” are both meditations on our present-day moral climate.
A Star Is Born? Try Manufactured, a New Book Argues
In “The Drama of Celebrity,” Sharon Marcus focuses on Sarah Bernhardt as a case study in the rise of celebrity culture.
Prep School Confidential
Secrets — and spirits — swirl through Michael Knight’s novel, “At Briarwood School for Girls.”
Wondering at the ‘Special Universe’ of Gay Life in All Its Diversity
In “Out of the Shadows,” Walt Odets looks at the trauma and shame that still plague gay men, and argues for more self-actualized and authentic lives.
Bill Geist Fondly Remembers the Middle America of Old
“Land of the Ozarks” looks back at a time that was less healthy than today, but possibly more fun.
A Thriller Set in Jacobean England Delves Into a Notorious Murder
In “The Poison Bed,” Elizabeth Fremantle reopens the case of Robert and Frances Carr, aristocrats charged with killing a man who opposed their marriage.
A Literary Cocktail of Gun Molls, Rotgut Moonshine and Skittering Shadows
In “Westside,” W.M. Akers’s debut novel, Prohibition-era Manhattan has been divided by a giant wall, and the city has been overrun by jungle and rot.
In the Semi-Fantastical World of ‘The Fox and Dr. Shimamura,’ Nothing Is Certain
In Christine Wunnicke’s new novel, a neurologist suffers from a mysterious fever as he toggles between Eastern and Western cultures.
The Hacking Supergroup That Counts Beto O’Rourke as One of Its Own
Joseph Menn’s “Cult of the Dead Cow” is a narrative history of a group of hackers who went from apolitical hobbyists to security advisers for the world’s most powerful institutions.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Portrait of a Donkey, the Traveling Companion of a Literary Giant
Huguette Martel paints the title character from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes.”
His Novel’s Hero Is a Middle-Aged Canadian Catholic Professor. And a Suicide Bomber.
Randy Boyagoda’s satirical novel “Original Prin” is an antic account of one man’s journey from a college in Toronto to the war-torn Middle East.
New in Paperback: ‘Bruce Lee,’ ‘Fruit of the Drunken Tree’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Black And White 'Bezimena' Is Colored By Trauma And Yearning
Nina Bunjevac's harrowing new graphic novel takes off from Greek mythology to tell a story about sexual violence, obsession, and all the things people can't admit that they want, even to themselves.
(Image credit: Fantagraphics)
These 'Words For Home' Are Poetic And Powerful
Jasmine Warga's middle grade novel in verse follows a Syrian immigrant girl struggling to fit in with her relatives in unfamiliar Cincinnati. It's remarkably sensitive, and deceptively easy to read.
(Image credit: Petra Mayer/NPR)
Got Any Time-Travel Plans This Summer?
Let this spate of science fiction transport you to another era.
First Love and Other Investigations
In these Y.A. novels, teenagers search for answers to the mysteries of love and the puzzle of themselves.
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