The Week in Books
Salman Rushdie on a “dazzling” debut novel, Bret Easton Ellis, the birth of American Modernism and more.
The Stories In 'Guestbook' Linger Like Ghosts
Leanne Shapton's new short story collection feels like walking through an art gallery, each piece linked in ways that are ineffable but clear. And many sections use artwork, including Shapton's own.
(Image credit: Riverhead Books)
We Are All 'The Other Americans'
Laila Lalami's new novel combines riveting police procedural with a sensitive examination of life in California's Mojave Desert region, told through a well-rendered choir of different voices.
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The Book Review Podcast: Preet Bharara on the Rule of Law
Bharara discusses “Doing Justice,” and Senator Doug Jones talks about “Bending Toward Justice.”
Inside the List: The Debut Novel That Rules the Best-Seller List
“Where the Crawdads Sing,” which came out last August, got an initial boost from Reese Witherspoon. It’s now sold over 1.5 million copies.
Sketchbook | Graphic Review: A Comic Look at Nixon’s ‘Marihuana’ Report
The graphic novelist Box Brown looks at the government report that anticipated our current debates about the legalization of weed.
New in Paperback: ‘No Turning Back,’ ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
In 'She Could Fly,' A Teen Wrestles With A Host Of Psychological Mysteries
Christopher Cantwell's new graphic novel follows teenaged Luna, who's struggling with mental health issues and finds a kind of hope in the appearance of a mysterious flying woman in the Chicago skies.
(Image credit: Berger Books)
Children’s Books: Kids Searching for the Complicated Truth
On the cusp of their teenage years, the protagonists of these novels deal with death in the family, remembered childhood trauma and many varieties of parental pressure.
Nonfiction: The Poet Family Who Were Icons of Spanish Nationalism
“The Age of Disenchantments,” by Aaron Shulman, chronicles the turbulent lives of Leopoldo Panero, the unofficial poet laureate of Francoism, and his wife and children.
Families Banter and Bicker Their Way Through Three New Novels
In Julie Langsdorf’s “White Elephant,” Nickolas Butler’s “Little Faith” and Benjamin Markovits’s “A Weekend in New York,” you’ll find squabbling siblings, rebellious daughters and more.
Nonfiction: Unraveling the Putin Enigma
“Putin’s World,” by Angela E. Stent, seeks to put Russia’s relations with the West into long-term perspective.
Nonfiction: A History of American Jewish Women Shows How the Country Influenced Them, and Vice Versa
In “America’s Jewish Women” Pamela S. Nadell offers a sweeping historical tour, moving from colonial times through the feminist struggles and until today.
Fiction: Stories That Double as a Field Guide to Women’s Desires and Miseries
The collection “Rag,” by Maryse Meijer, is rife with blood and violence — much of it inflicted by men on women. In the world of her fiction, there is no desire without pain.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Probes the Difficult Lives of Arab-American Women
Etaf Rum’s “A Woman Is No Man” unsnarls the dark knot of history, culture, fear and trauma that shapes the experiences of three generations of one family.
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.
(Image credit: New Directions)
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