Fiction: ‘Women Talking,’ by Miriam Toews, Is a Mennonite #MeToo Novel
In an isolated religious community, some of the men have been raping the women for years. When they are finally arrested, the women must decide what to do next.
Personal Demons And Class Differences Complicate Love In 'Normal People'
Marianne is a social pariah, Connell is a football player. Sally Rooney's nuanced, flinty love story opens in a small town in Ireland, where two teens who "get" each other get together.
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Nonfiction: Ruth Reichl Dishes on the Last Days of Gourmet Magazine
“Save Me the Plums” is a delicious memoir of a decade that took her from the glory days of Condé Nast to the morning when the office door was closed for good.
3 Young Adult Novels To Help You Out Of Hibernation
It's getting too nice to stay inside, but when you venture out into the sunshine, be sure to take a good book with you. And if young adult fiction is your favorite, we've got three great spring reads.
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Teen Years Echo Through A Lifetime In 'Trust Exercise'
Susan Choi's new novel is set at a performing arts high school in the 1980s, as students navigate the line between adolescence and adulthood, student-teacher relationships and the drama of first love.
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Fiction: Drama and Suspense in the Canadian Wilderness
Peter Heller’s “The River” juxtaposes a tense social situation with a raging wildfire.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: An Urdu Epic Puts India’s Partition Into Historical Perspective
Qurratulain Hyder’s “River of Fire,” “transcreated” into English by the author, gushes across more than 2,000 years of the subcontinent’s cultural life.
In 'Working,' Writer Robert Caro Explains His Process — And What Drives Him
The memoir is a window into the seemingly superhuman reporting, researching, writing and will-power that have led Caro's reinvention of the political biography. But when's the next LBJ book coming?
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Nonfiction: How Tough-on-Crime Prosecutors Contribute to Mass Incarceration
“Charged,” by Emily Bazelon, argues that prosecutors have far too much power over the outcomes of criminal cases and lays out a path for urgent reform.
'The Old Drift' Takes The Long View Of Human (And Mosquito) History
Namwali Serpell's lush, sprawling new novel is a speculative history — and future — of Zambia, from colonialism to an ill-fated space program and the age of mass surveillance and drone warfare.
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Monsters Imaginary And Real Haunt The Caves Of 'The Luminous Dead'
Caitlin Starling's tense new horror novel follows a desperate young cave diver who's lied her way into a job on a dangerous planet, and the supervisor who may not have her best interests at heart.
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The Week in Books
A deep dive into the Chernobyl disaster, a debut British-Palestinian novelist and more.
5 things about your book: Erin Lee Carr on Father-Daughter Joys and Struggles
Carr’s new memoir, “All That You Leave Behind,” documents her relationship with her father, the former Times reporter and columnist David Carr, and her own troubles, including with alcoholism.
These 'Women Talking' Build Their Own Faith And Future
Miriam Toews' new novel follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of horrific sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.
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Poetry: A Soldier Kills a Deaf Boy, and Rebels Respond With a Barricade of Silence
Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic,” a poetry collection framed as a two-act play, proffers deafness as a source of strength and resistance against oppression.
Court Life Is Murder In 'The Poison Bed'
Elizabeth Fremantle's twisty, deceptive new novel is based on the real-life story of the Earl and Countess of Somerset, who were convicted in the murder of a friend-turned-enemy in 1616.
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Sketchbook: The Author’s Journey
A graphic look at the life cycle of writing a book.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The Book Review Podcast: The Chernobyl Disaster in Full
Adam Higginbotham talks about his sweeping new history of the nuclear accident and its aftermath, and Nellie Bowles discusses Clive Thompson’s “Coders.”
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