Fiction: In a New Collection, Deborah Eisenberg Returns to Say the Unsaid
“Your Duck Is My Duck” offers six new stories filled with Eisenberg’s trademark style, blazingly moral and devastatingly sidelong.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Essay: All Those Books You’ve Bought but Haven’t Read? There’s a Word for That
Most of us own books we’ve read and books we haven’t. Kevin Mims considers the importance of owning books we’ll never get around to finishing.
'Once And Forever' Turns Familiar Fairy-Tale Ideas Upside Down
Kenji Miyazawa is a beloved author in Japan; this book — a reissue of a 1993 story collection — balances chaos and kindness, natural and supernatural to build a world in which anything might happen.
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'False Calm' Acts As A Record Of Real Life In Patagonia
Argentine writer María Sonia Cristoff wants to be honest: She won't shape her subjects' narratives or take control another person's story. This is both the book's great strength and great weakness.
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Nonfiction: Michael Lewis Wonders Who’s Really Running the Government
“The Fifth Risk” examines the crucial, often life-or-death, work done by officials in three government agencies.
Nonfiction: John Kerry Describes Politics as It Used to Be
“Every Day Is Extra” is the memoir of an eyewitness to some of the most dramatic changes in American political history.
Books News: How Feminist Dystopian Fiction Is Channeling Women’s Anger and Anxiety
A growing canon of female-centered science fiction looks at questions of gender inequality, misogyny and institutionalized sexism.
'Beautiful Things' Is A String Of Little Apocalypses
Almost every story in Simon Van Booy's bitter, tonic new collection is about the end of the world — or if not the world, then a world, whether it's a failing relationship or a dying family member.
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'Infidel' Uses The Supernatural To Explore Racism's Real Life Horrors
The new comic series from creators Pornsak Pichetshote and Aaron Campbell follows a young Muslim-American woman living in an apartment building haunted by evil entities that feed on racist hate.
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'Belonging' Explores The Notion Of Homeland And Inherited Guilt
In its searching honesty and multi-layered, visual and verbal storytelling, Nora Krug's memoir investigates mixed feelings about being German and her family's role in the Holocaust.
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The Book Review: Kate Atkinson on ‘Transcription’
Atkinson discusses her new novel about a young woman caught up in spy work during World War II.
Crime: The Scene of the Crime: Four Mysteries in Ominous Locales
Marilyn Stasio’s column takes readers to backwater towns in Minnesota and Oklahoma and the murky Victorian-era Thames. Also a not-very-sunny California.
Children’s Books: A Graphic Nonfiction Account of Hitler’s Would-Be Assassin
In “The Faithful Spy,” John Hendrix makes the life story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a leader of the Dutch resistance against the Nazis, into both a thriller and a tale of valiant faith.
Fiction: Daniel Torday’s New Novel Pits Young Against Old
In “Boomer1,” the internet is the battleground for generational warfare.
New in Paperback: ‘Windfall,’ ‘The Ruined House’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Otherworldly: The Best New Fantasy Novels
Amal El-Mohtar looks at four books that immerse readers in richly imagined otherworlds.
The Shortlist: No Fins or Mask Needed: Four New Books Take Underwater Journeys
Whether you want to know more about orcas, the whale fossil record, the Maine lobstering industry or fish behavior, there’s a book for you.
Fiction: Novellas of Tokyo’s Lost Generation, Newly Translated
“The End of the Moment We Had” marks the first English appearance of prose by the playwright Toshiki Okada.
Inside the List: His Novel Describes the Dark Side of Internet Fame. Hank Green Knows Something About That.
In “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing,” which debuts on the list at No. 1, a YouTube video transforms its creator into an overnight media sensation.
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