A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived.
Michel Houellebecq has eerily foreseen some of the worst social developments of our time.
'The Last Cruise' Is A Bit More Than A 3-Hour Tour
Kate Christensen's new novel follows a group of people on a vintage-themed cruise — think cabaret, cocktails and no Internet — who are thrown together unexpectedly when things go wrong on board.
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Fiction: In a Novel, Nine Voices in the South Anticipate an Execution
In “The Mercy Seat,” by Elizabeth H. Winthrop, locals in a small Louisiana town consider justice and law before a black man is to be put to death.
By the Book: Michiko Kakutani: By the Book
The Times’s former chief book critic Michiko Kakutani, author of “The Death of Truth,” doesn’t think in terms of genre: “J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books are no more Y.A. reading, to me, than John le Carré’s Smiley novels are spy stories.”
Nonfiction: A Writer’s Life: The Romance and the Reality
In “The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography,” the prolific British author Deborah Levy reflects on the sacrifices and satisfactions of her career.
'The Fall Of Wisconsin' Puts The State's 2016 Presidential Choice In Context
In 2016, Wisconsin picked a Republican for president for the first time since 1984. In his new book, Dan Kaufman, who grew up in the state, tries to show the vote for Trump was part of a larger story.
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Floating Prison Drones Equal Menace In 'The Furnace'
Prentis Rollins' new graphic novel is set in a near future where the government uses drone-powered mobile invisibility fields to control its prisoners, keeping them out of sight and incommunicado.
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Nonfiction: The Urbane Bookworm: Robert Gottlieb’s Essays Celebrate Literature, Film Classics and Dance
In “Near-Death Experiences … and Others,” his new collection, the esteemed editor weighs in on romance novels, Hollywood movies and — a longstanding love — ballet.
The Shortlist: Three Recent Novels Show Off Latin America’s Varied History — and Literary Style
“The Farm,” by Héctor Abad, “In the Distance With You,” by Carla Guelfenbein, and “The Linden Tree,” by César Aira, range from rural Colombia to cosmopolitan Santiago and Peronist Argentina.
Nonfiction: A White House Memoir That’s Equal Parts C-Span and ‘Sex and the City’
“The Corner of the Oval” is Beck Dorey-Stein’s fresh, funny, utterly unconventional account of working for President Obama.
Daring New Novel Fetishizes A Desperate Desire For Sleep
Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation centers on a miserable young woman who believes that if she could only sleep long enough, she'd wake up refreshed and free of existential pain.
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'Rest And Relaxation' Is As Sharp As Its Heroine Is Bleary
Ottessa Moshfegh's bizarrely fascinating new novel follows a young woman in Manhattan who decides to sleep her life away with a combination of pills, waking occasionally for bad bodega coffee.
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Nonfiction: The Making of a Moral Hero: ‘The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela’
A new book assembles 255 letters, both heartbreaking and inspiring, by the former South African president and civil rights activist, who spent more than 27 years in jail.
Fiction: A Novel That Reads Like Martin Amis on Mescaline
A psychopathic but oddly charming coke dealer shoots and blusters his way through “The Price You Pay,” Aidan Truhen’s brilliant, blood-soaked thriller.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: An Instagram-Obsessed Anthropologist Riffs on the Meaning of ‘Maleness’
In Lynne Tillman’s novel “Men and Apparitions,” Zeke Stark explores how the feminist movement has affected men.
The Shortlist: Three Books Consider What Happens When the Robots Take Over
How far along is artificial intelligence and what will it do to human society? Three books ponder this question, and wonder if we and the robots can work together.
Nonfiction: In the Middle Class, and Barely Getting By
Alissa Quart’s “Squeezed” examines the problem of families at the upper edge of the middle class, struggling to survive financially in America.
Nonfiction: What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck?
The former labor secretary Robert B. Reich reviews two new books arguing for a universal basic income: “Give People Money,” by Annie Lowrey, and “The War on Normal People,” by Andrew Yang.
For July, 3 Romantic Reads That Prove Summer Is For Lovers
Whether you like high-powered lawyers, ambitious politicians or petticoat-wearing paleontologists, July brings a bumper crop of romance novels, for all your happy-ever-after needs.
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