Inside the List: The Paper Published a Holiday Books Guide in 1851 — and Every Year Since
It turns out that people have liked to give books as gifts for a long time. Here’s a peek at how tastes have changed over the years.
New in Paperback: ‘Afterglow (a dog memoir),’ ‘The Odyssey’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Fiction: ‘Love Is Blind,’ but Lust Isn’t
In William Boyd’s novel of desire and deceit, a hunky Scottish piano tuner falls for a sexy Russian soprano.
Books News: Curtis Sittenfeld’s Next Short Story Will Be an Audible Original
The best-selling writer of “Prep,” “Eligible” and other novels edited “Atomic Marriage” with audio in mind.
Nonfiction: Books About Losing Faith That Will Give You Hope
In “Interior States,” Megan O’Gieblyn reconsiders her evangelical upbringing, and in “What if This Were Enough?” Heather Havrilesky renounces the “enforced cheer” of American culture.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: Isabel Wilkerson on Michelle Obama and the Great Migration
The former first lady’s long-awaited new memoir, “Becoming,” recounts with insight, candor and wit her family’s trajectory from the Jim Crow South to Chicago’s South Side and her own improbable journey from there to the White House.
'Broken Ground' Balances Location, Character And Props In Perfect Proportion
Prolific crime writer Val McDermid's latest catches up with plainspoken cold-case detective Karen Pirie as she deals with personal troubles, machinations at work and a mystery going back decades.
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Surrealism Meets Sci-Fi In 'Parallel Lives'
Olivier Schrauwen's new graphic novel is cold and rejecting, giddy and uncontrolled, all at the same time. It's semi-autobiographical and loosely sci-fi, set in an unsettlingly minimalist future.
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Paper Chase: ‘A Christmas Carol,’ by Charles Dickens, Turns 175
On the anniversary of the beloved holiday classic, we look back at some of The Times’s coverage of the author and his story over the years.
By the Book: Michelle Obama: By the Book
The former first lady, whose new memoir is “Becoming,” admires Zadie Smith’s novel “White Teeth” for its complexity and humor: “Even if a book takes on serious topics, I think it should still be fun to read.”
Key 1968 Harvard-Yale Battle Sets Scene For 'The Game' — And Football's Future
Author George Howe Colt's choice to delve into the lives of the players and coaches in his new book, as well as the turbulent year itself, makes his writing about the actual game pay off beautifully.
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Complicated, Challenging 'Revolution Sunday' Mixes Prose And Poetry
Cuban writer Wendy Guerra has lived under surveillance in her home country, and she works that experience into her intense new novel about a young poet in Havana whose success causes trouble.
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The Art of Reading: The Way We Read
Donald and Patricia Oresman’s 550-piece art collection was auctioned recently. Every piece had one thing in common: people were reading in them.
Nonfiction: Was Saul Bellow a Man or a Jerk? Both, a Monumental Biography Concludes
The second and final volume of Zachary Leader’s “The Life of Saul Bellow” is a portrait of a writer struggling to contend with the consequences of fame.
Nonfiction: A Scholar of Religion Confronts Her Own Grief
In her memoir, “Why Religion?,” Elaine Pagels tells the story of her own deep loss and her search for answers in faith and spirituality.
Brutally Intelligent 'Milkman' Depicts Lives Cramped By Fear
Anna Burns' new novel — which won the Man Booker prize — follows a never-named young woman who's being harassed by a powerful paramilitary figure during Ireland's Troubles.
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'Babel' Looks At Language Through The 20 Most-Widely Spoken
Linguist Gaston Dorren's book is endlessly interesting — and you don't have to have any linguistic training to enjoy it: He has a talent for clearly explaining even the most difficult concepts.
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Nonfiction: A New Story Collection and a Memoir by Lucia Berlin, Patron Saint of Soulful Cool
In “Evening in Paradise,” a volume of short stories, and “Welcome Home,” a memoir unfinished at her death, the cult writer cements her status as a revered chronicler of America’s lost corners.
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