New in Paperback: ‘Ramp Hollow,’ ‘Freshwater’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Crime: Marilyn Stasio Plays Bad Santa in This Holiday Crime Column
Her picks from the year’s mysteries — for the most original murder method, the toughest puzzle, the creepiest setting, even the loudest bang for the buck.
Children’s Books: Novels That Freshen Up Some Well-Worn Classics
“Pride and Prejudice” and “Beowulf” get a new, modern look, and three fairy tales about female beauty get mashed up into a tale of two magical sisters.
Nonfiction: Ingrid Sischy’s Genius: Portraits of Contemporary Culture
“Nothing Is Lost: Selected Essays” offers a sampling of the famed editor and critic’s cutting-edge reports on the art and artifice of American life.
Profile: Celeste Ng Is More Than a Novelist
Her knack for domestic engineering in her stories have found commercial success. Now she’s using that power to give other writers a boost.
Nonfiction: A New Biography of the Architect Philip Johnson, the ‘Man in the Glass House’
Mark Lamster’s book recounts the long and productive life of an architect who had an outsize influence on the art form throughout the 20th century.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
By the Book: Ian Rankin: By the Book
The crime writer, whose new Rebus novel is “In a House of Lies,” is giving his archives to the National Library of Scotland: “There might be material there for some future Ph.D. researcher … long after I’m dead.”
Nonfiction: Julián Castro’s American Story
In a new memoir, “An Unlikely Journey,” the potential presidential candidate traces his family’s history, from his grandmother’s emigration to the United States to his rise in politics.
Nonfiction: A Predatory Congressman, His Jilted Lover and a Gilded Age Lawsuit That Foreshadowed #MeToo
“Bringing Down the Colonel,” by Patricia Miller, casts timely light on a forgotten 19th-century saga in which a powerful man was held accountable for his exploitative treatment of a young woman.
'The Disasters' Could Be The Beginning Of A Great Story
M.K. England's new novel starts with a bang: A group of space-school rejects must save the universe. It never quite delivers on that premise, but the characters are so appealing, you'll want more.
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Fiction: A Silicon Valley Start-Up Offers Hints of Alternate Lives
In Helen Schulman’s latest novel, “Come With Me,” a California family’s bonds are frayed by infidelities both virtual and actual.
Nonfiction: Chasing Down a Decades-Old Family Tragedy
In “The Day That Went Missing,” Richard Beard, gutted by memories and grief, investigates his brother’s death on a Cornwall beach in 1978.
'Fresh Air' Favorites: Our Critics Pick 2018's Best Books, Movies, Music And TV
Find everything our critics loved this year, all in one place: Maureen Corrigan's book list, movie pairings from Justin Chang, music recommended by Ken Tucker and David Bianculli's must-see TV list.
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New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: Explaining Trump, Brexit and Other Expressions of Nationalism
John B. Judis’s “The Nationalist Revival” explores the worries and resentments of those who feel left behind.
2018 'Ghost List' Revisits The TV, Books And Movies A Critic Wishes He Covered
Each year, Fresh Air critic-at-large John Powers finds himself haunted by the books, movies and shows that he loved but wasn't able to review on the air.
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Poetry: In These New Essays, John McPhee Finds Poetry in the Material at Hand
“The Patch,” his seventh collection, probes landscapes from New Jersey to Alaska and profiles a vast cast of characters, from Joan Baez to Thomas Wolfe.
Tracking the Opioid Epidemic Through the Books That Warned Us
In a new column, Prescribed Reading, Abigail Zuger looks at past books that dealt with opioid abuse in order to understand better how we got here.
The Book Review Podcast: Poetry Meets the Moment(s)
The Book Review’s poetry editor, Gregory Cowles, discusses Tracy K. Smith’s essay about political poetry and more from this week’s special issue.
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