Match Book: Books at the Box Office
Nonfiction titles that made a splash on both the page and the big screen.
Sketchbook: Was the True Hero of ‘Peter Pan’ the Dog?
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.
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
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
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
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.
“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
Three new historical novels reimagine the lives of real women.
From Our Archives: Revisiting Diana Athill: ‘The Doyenne of English Book Editors’
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
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Fiction: Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas
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
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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By the Book: Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book
The fashion designer and author of the new memoir “I.M.” likes his literature “sort of plain”: “Style is suspicious to me in general. I think that’s true about my taste in everything. Food. Décor. Clothes.”
Fiction: In This Updated Myth, Female Intuition Goes Nuclear
Sharma Shields’s new novel, “The Cassandra,” brings an archetypal Greek seer into the age of modern warfare.
Fiction: A Novelist Dares to Imagine Tennessee Williams in Love and at Work
In “Leading Men,” Christopher Castellani takes Tennessee Williams and his lover, Frank Merlo, back to an invented interlude in Portofino.
On Poetry: What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out
A new collection of the writer’s prose and poems, “On Drinking,” makes clear how evasive he was even in his most seemingly honest work. Can Bukowski’s view of addiction survive a new era?
Fiction: In a Gutsy New Thriller, a Black Female Spy’s Past Comes Back to Haunt Her
“American Spy,” Lauren Wilkinson’s assured debut novel, explores the career and moral quandaries of a black woman who’s undervalued in the boy’s club of the F.B.I.
Stories Converge In A Flooded 'Bangkok'
Pitchaya Sudbanthad's novel follows a broad cast of characters who gradually come together in and around a condominium tower in Bangkok. It's a promising debut that expertly evokes a sense of place.
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In 'Nobody's Looking At You,' The Author Finds Herself Part Of The Story
The title essay reveals just how far New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm has evolved from the unassuming reporter who might once have reassured herself before an important interview.
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