Book Reviews

Nonfiction: ‘Say Nothing’ — Part History, Part True Crime — Illuminates the Bitter Conflict in Northern Ireland

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 12:02pm

Patrick Radden Keefe’s stunning new book uses the 1972 murder and abduction of a Belfast mother of 10 to tell the story of the Troubles.

New in Paperback: ‘The Strange Order of Things,’ ‘The Pisces’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 11:50am

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

Inside the List: The ‘Columbine’ Author Dave Cullen Talks About His New Book, ‘Parkland’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 10:39am

Soon after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Cullen realized there was something different about this tragedy. He got on a plane to Florida.

Match Book: Books at the Box Office

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 10:35am

Nonfiction titles that made a splash on both the page and the big screen.

Sketchbook: Was the True Hero of ‘Peter Pan’ the Dog?

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 5:00am

Sara Lautman draws a tribute to the Darling family’s loyal pet and caretaker, Nana.

Fiction: Their Romance Dissolved. So the Heroines of This Novel Seek Their Roots.

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 5:00am

The title characters of Amy Feltman’s “Willa & Hesper” find solace from their breakup in the rabbit holes of their European Jewish backgrounds.

Nonfiction: The Series of Historical Mistakes That Led to Trump

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 5:00am

Michael Tomasky’s “If We Can Keep It” recounts the political and cultural back story to our current, destabilized moment.

Otherworldly: Sublime New Fantasy Fiction

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 5:00am

An epic debut, poems as sharp as blood-tinged spindles, a stand-alone novel narrated by a god: There’s something for everyone here.

Children’s Books: Y.A. Thrillers That Put Teenagers to the Test

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 5:00am

An emotionless world where feelings are a commodity. A murderer pursuing a homecoming queen. And more, in novels from Karen M. McManus, E.K. Johnston, Lamar Giles and S.E. Grove.

Essay: Joan Castleman, Meet Glenn Close. What Happens When a Book’s Character Comes to Life.

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 5:00am

“The first time I saw ‘The Wife’ I felt as if I were watching a home movie I hadn’t known existed.”

The Shortlist: Hitler Had Food Tasters, Anne Frank Lived and Maud Baum Wanted to Be Heard

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 5:00am

Three new historical novels reimagine the lives of real women.

From Our Archives: Revisiting Diana Athill: ‘The Doyenne of English Book Editors’

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 5:00am

In her memoir “Stet,” the editor behind writers such as V.S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys reflected on her life in publishing.

Letters to the Editor

NY Times Book Reviews - Fri, 02/22/2019 - 5:00am

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 02/21/2019 - 6:16pm

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Fiction: Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas

NY Times Book Reviews - Thu, 02/21/2019 - 2:00pm

These novels, about an aspiring scholar in Italy and a young poet returning to his roots in Afghanistan, chart unsettled paths to adulthood.

In 'Saturn's Return,' Astrology Is A Framework, But Not A Fix

NPR Book Reviews - Thu, 02/21/2019 - 7:00am

Sara Gran's first novel, now reissued, takes an astrological concept as the jumping-off point for a messy, prickly, realistic depiction of a difficult year in a young woman's life.

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Nonfiction: ‘Say Nothing’ — Part History, Part True Crime — Illuminates the Bitter Conflict in Northern Ireland

New in Paperback: ‘The Strange Order of Things,’ ‘The Pisces’

Inside the List: The ‘Columbine’ Author Dave Cullen Talks About His New Book, ‘Parkland’

Match Book: Books at the Box Office

Sketchbook: Was the True Hero of ‘Peter Pan’ the Dog?

Fiction: Their Romance Dissolved. So the Heroines of This Novel Seek Their Roots.

Nonfiction: The Series of Historical Mistakes That Led to Trump

Otherworldly: Sublime New Fantasy Fiction

Children’s Books: Y.A. Thrillers That Put Teenagers to the Test

Essay: Joan Castleman, Meet Glenn Close. What Happens When a Book’s Character Comes to Life.

The Shortlist: Hitler Had Food Tasters, Anne Frank Lived and Maud Baum Wanted to Be Heard

From Our Archives: Revisiting Diana Athill: ‘The Doyenne of English Book Editors’

Letters to the Editor

Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week

Fiction: Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas

In 'Saturn's Return,' Astrology Is A Framework, But Not A Fix

By the Book: Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book

Fiction: In This Updated Myth, Female Intuition Goes Nuclear

Fiction: A Novelist Dares to Imagine Tennessee Williams in Love and at Work

On Poetry: What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out

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