Essay: When Science Fiction Comes True
Sci-fi writers gave us satellite communication, army tanks, tablets, CCTV and the internet — before these things existed in real life. What explains their powers of foresight?
Fiction: Leila Aboulela’s American Debut Collects Stories of the Muslim Immigrant Experience
“Elsewhere, Home” gathers perspectives from Aberdeen to Cairo in a much-needed nod to the universality of the human condition.
Books News: Scholar of the Marshall Plan Wins American History Book Prize
Benn Steil’s “The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War” has won the New-York Historical Society’s prize for the best work of American history.
'The Volunteer' Is A War Story Unlike Any Other
Salvatore Scibona's new novel is a generational saga, an epic of Vietnam and other places rendered in language that makes even simple things sound mythic. But first, a boy is abandoned at an airport.
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Nonfiction: A New York Times Lawyer Looks Back at His Most Memorable Cases
David McCraw’s “Truth in Our Times” is a behind-the-scenes report on one newspaper’s legal battles with the Trump administration and others.
Fiction: A Writer Who Finds Grace Beneath the Violence in His Stories
David Means’s latest collection, “Instructions for a Funeral,” is filled with adulterers and criminals, railroad bums and wharf rats and other castaways.
'The Altruists' Asks: How Do You Live A Good Life?
Andrew Ridker's sharp, compassionate first novel follows a family of flawed but sympathetic bumblers whose efforts to do good more often end up causing harm — to themselves and others.
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Nonfiction: A Pakistani-Indian Journalist Attempts to Rediscover His Roots
In “The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges,” Aatish Taseer mourns the politicization of traditional Hindu values and the rise of religious bigotry.
'Gingerbread' Is A Delightfully Spicy Family Fable
Helen Oyeyemi played with fairy tale ideas in the past; her new novel takes off from "Hansel and Gretel" for the story of a mother, a daughter and a mysteriously powerful family gingerbread recipe.
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Oops! Famously Scathing Reviews of Classic Books From The Times’s Archive
We called “Sister Carrie” a book “one can get along very well without reading,” dismissed “Lolita” as “dull, dull, dull,” and had nothing nice to say about “Howards End.”
Fiction: A First Novel Explores Zimbabwe’s Troubled History
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma’s “House of Stone” uses a young man’s search for his personal ancestry as a way of unearthing hidden aspects of his country’s violent past.
The Book Review Podcast: A Violent Summer in Chicago
Alex Kotlowitz discusses “An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago,” and John Lanchester talks about his new novel, “The Wall.”
'An American Summer' Presents The Human Side Of Gun Violence In Chicago
Alex Kotlowitz's new book amplifies the words of those who have witnessed tragedy and makes their experiences available to readers — a chronicle that is painful but also necessary.
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Essay: Is Satire Possible in the Age of Trump?
Parodies of the president proliferate in books and on TV. But how do you ridicule a man who seems to have mastered the strategies of those who would hold him to account through humor?
Sketchbook | Graphic Review: The Enduring Power of “Tuck Everlasting”
The artist Tillie Walden pays graphic homage to the classic children’s book.
From Our Archives: When Janet Malcolm Surveyed the World of Psychoanalytic Training
In her 1981 book “Psychoanalysis,” Malcolm explores psychiatry and mental health.
Children’s Books: Graphic Novels That Will Keep Kids Reading
Jerry Craft’s tale of an artistic black kid navigating a mostly white prep school, and Lincoln Peirce’s new series about a medieval girl who longs to be a knight.
The Shortlist: Fascinating Alternate Histories in Four New Novels
Greek gods prowl the First World War. Medieval French nuns become executioners. A future U.S. rounds up Muslims. A scorned aristocrat pulls off the ultimate heist.
New in Paperback: ‘What Are We Doing Here?,’ ‘The House of Broken Angels’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Nonfiction: In the Hands of Janet Malcolm, Journalism Becomes Art
“Nobody’s Looking at You” collects profiles, reportage and literary criticism produced between 1996 and 2018 by the famed New Yorker staff writer.
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