The Book Review Podcast: Drawing History
Hillary Chute talks about new graphic books that address serious issues, and Nicole Lamy discusses her Match Book column, in which she helps readers find books they’ll love.
Fiction: A Novel Chases Its Narrator on the Tour de France
Joe Mungo Reed’s “We Begin Our Ascent” is a novel about cycling, doping and the personal failings of a middling racer on the Tour.
Fiction: If the Bleak South Dakota Plains Don’t Break Them, Their Family Just Might
In Paula Saunders’s debut novel, “The Distance Home,” a stuttering, ballet-loving boy and his younger sister struggle to find their place in the world.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Satirizes Contemporary High School Culture
Lexi Freiman’s “Inappropriation” sets perennial teenage angst against the backdrop of today’s digital culture.
Newsbook: Read These 3 Books About the Tour de France
The books give accounts of Lance Armstrong’s doping, the first race ever and one amateur cyclist’s attempts to complete the course.
New in Paperback: ‘Black Detroit,’ ‘Goodbye, Vitamin’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Inside the List: ‘We Couldn’t Have Colluded to Order a Cheeseburger’
Members of the Trump family get behind Jeanine Pirro’s new book, “Liars, Leakers and Liberals.”
The Shortlist: Books Are the New Black
Glittering worlds, lip-smacking clothes: Fashion-centric new releases explore the importance of Loulou de La Falaise, the British couturier Charles James and theatrical street wardrobes.
Graphic Content: Cartoonists Who Draw in Order to Be Heard
Ben Passmore’s “Your Black Friend and Other Strangers” is one of three books reviewed that struggle with difference, dysphoria and the struggle to survive.
Fiction: Mack the Knife, Now a Transgender Hero of London’s Riotous Underground
Jordy Rosenberg’s debut novel, “Confessions of the Fox,” is a heady romp through an 18th-century England awash in sex, crime and revolutionary ideas.
Fiction: Four Countries, Five Families, Seven Decades — and One Devastating Storm
A typhoon roaring ashore in Bangladesh in 1970 is the linchpin of “The Storm,” Arif Anwar’s bighearted debut novel.
Our Back Pages: 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: Amy Tan’s debut, “The Joy Luck Club.”
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The Enthusiast: In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick
“Of all the books I have reread to comfort myself, I have turned most often to ‘Sleepless Nights,’ not without a little bitter tang of irony because of its title.”
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Fiction: Neither Here Nor There: Living and Loving Between China and America
Two debut novels, “Number One Chinese Restaurant,” by Lillian Li, and “The Emperor of Shoes,” by Spencer Wise, feature characters whose lives are deeply entangled with two cultures.
An Aging Philip Marlowe Returns In 'Only To Sleep'
Lawrence Osborne's new Marlowe novel brings us a version of the gumshoe in his 70s, lonely and slow, looking into another mysterious death. It's a book that seems simple, but hides cavernous depths.
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By the Book: Simon Rich: By the Book
The humor writer Simon Rich, whose latest collection is “Hits and Misses,” would love to see his life as a Ken Burns documentary: “Just a lot of slow pans of me typing on my computer, while sitting in different positions. And the whole time, inexplicably, there’s jazz.”
Fiction: A Novel About Growing Up in the Middle of Death
Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s “Fruit of the Drunken Tree” describes life in war-torn Colombia, based on the author’s personal experience.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Mixes Lust With the Directionless of Youth
In Andrew Martin’s “Early Work,” the already shiftless life of a struggling writer is derailed by romantic infatuation.
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