Audiobooks: Elaine Stritch Gives New Voice to Dorothy Parker’s Tales of Social Life, and Private Pain
The late actor delivers the 20th-century author’s prose like you’ve never heard it before.
Newsbook: Everyone Is Talking About the California Wildfires. Read These Books on How to Fight Them.
Hear from the firefighters, the residents and the scientists trying to find solutions.
'Born To Be Posthumous' Brings Edward Gorey's Name To His Work
Gorey, whose art formed the basis of Mystery! and who was the mind behind The Gashlycrumb Tinies, is undeniably one of the most influential American writers and illustrators of the last century.
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'Insomnia' Is Both A Celebration And Lament Of Sleeplessness
Marina Benjamin's book is more impressionistic and personal than scientific: Don't look here for an explanation of the chemistry or biology of nocturnal wakefulness.
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Nonfiction: What It Means to Be ‘Latinx,’ and What That Means for America
Julian Castro, the former San Antonio mayor and Obama cabinet member, reviews Ed Morales’s new book on the diversity and hybridity of Latino identity.
Books News: Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ Finally Hits Shelves
The first lady’s memoir arrives just ahead of her multicity arena tour.
Nonfiction: Is This the Best One-Volume Biography of Churchill Yet Written?
Andrew Roberts’s “Churchill: Walking With Destiny” tells the full story of an extraordinary life.
'A Tale Of Two Murders' Asks Whether Justice Was Done In A Famous, Century-Old Trial
In the 1920s, Edith Thompson was executed along with her lover, who was found guilty of murdering her husband. Laura Thompson looks at how social conventions may have lead to an unjust outcome.
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Books of The Times: Natasha Trethewey’s Poems Take Wing on Intimate Details
Filled with food, music and hard toil, selections of the two-time poet laureate’s work are brought together in “Monument.”
In 'Let's Go,' Wilco Frontman Jeff Tweedy Details His Struggles And Joys
The singer-songwriter tells the story of how a kid from a Midwestern, working-class family became an idol to country-punk and alternative rock fans — and the obstacles and celebrations along the way.
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Nonfiction: When Excellence Is a Survival Strategy
Kiese Laymon’s memoir, “Heavy,” is a son’s unflinching portrait of a mother whose violent love and exacting expectations were meant to protect him from harm.
Audiobooks: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explores the Symbiosis Between War and Astrophysics
In “Accessory to War,” the astrophysicist offers a history of space exploration and the ways it has been aided and abetted by warfare and its needs.
Stolen Stories: A Literary Con Man Climbs To Success In 'Ladder To The Sky'
A charismatic young writer poaches plot points from the lives of established authors in John Boyne's new novel. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls A Ladder to the Sky "erudite and ingeniously constructed."
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Nonfiction: American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away
Five new books touch on American Jewish identity and what will sustain it into the future.
For November, 3 Perfect Sweater-Weather Romances
Leaves are turning, the wind has a snap to it — it's finally fall, and we've got some great romance novels for you to cozy up with as the days get shorter and darker.
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Further Reading: Christopher Lehmann-Haupt’s Most Memorable Book Reviews
From 1969 to 1995, he tackled two or three books a week, making and breaking literary careers.
'City Of Ash And Red' Will Pull You Into Its Nightmare
Hye-young Pyun's new novel, about an exterminator on a work trip to a nameless dystopian country, has overtones of Kafka, Stephen King and J.G. Ballard. It's grim, it's gross, and it's unputdownable.
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The Enthusiast: In Praise of Ann Petry
“ ‘The Street’ is my favorite type of novel, literary with an astonishing plot.”
New in Paperback: ‘Winter,’ ‘Ten Restaurants That Changed America’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
From Our Archives: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Robert Scholes’s on Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar.”
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