Fiction: A Buzzworthy Debut About a Mysterious and Secluded Artists’ Retreat
In Harriet Alida Lye’s “The Honey Farm,” creative individuals hail from all walks of life to take part in an eerie bee colony-slash-cult.
Profile: Australians Can’t Get Enough of the Barefoot Investor
The all-time, best-selling nonfiction book in Australia is, somewhat surprisingly, a personal finance guide. And its 39-year-old author, Scott Pape, is a national celebrity.
Children’s Books: Brief Tales for New Readers and Little Listeners From Philip Stead and More
A bighearted toad, a cool fox, a daredevil younger sister and other larger-than-life characters fill these very short story collections.
Revisiting Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’ as a Work in Progress
The typewritten page, bearing the influential feminist thinker’s intimate thoughts and revisions, reveals the inner workings of an avant-garde mind.
Inside the List: As Their Publicists Cringe, Best-Selling Authors Enter the Political Fray
In the past you rarely knew where your favorite writers stood on political and social issues. That’s changed.
Essay: Should We Worry About Trump’s Fawning Admiration of the Military?
Rather than becoming partisan instruments of any president, American soldiers have more reason than ever to heed Huntington’s call to neutral public service.
New in Paperback: ‘Sapiens,’ ‘Men Without Women’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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: Patrick Chamoiseau’s “Solibo Magnificent.”
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Nonfiction: Did He Really Say That? On the Perils and Pitfalls of Translation
In “This Little Art,” Kate Briggs, a translator of Roland Barthes, ponders the challenges and mysteries of rendering an author’s words in a foreign language.
With Gonzo Flair, A New Graphic Novel Kills Hitler
Anthony Del Col's gung-ho tale of a convoluted plot to bump off Hitler is jam-packed with beret-wearing Resistance fighters, frosty female spies and epic car chases — plus the dictator's secret son.
(Image credit: Image Comics )
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: A Dumping Ground for the Poor, the Criminal and the Mad
In “Damnation Island,” Stacy Horn traces the appalling history of the East River institutions where 19th-century New York exiled its undesirables.
Bookshelf: ‘Central Park Love Song’
Reading Stephen Wolf‘s combined guidebook and autobiography of his time spent in Manhattan’s largest green space is the next best thing to being there.
By the Book: Ottessa Moshfegh: By the Book
Ottessa Moshfegh, author most recently of the novel “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” would invite Edith Wharton, Ralph Ellison and Charles Bukowski to dinner: “I’d ... want to know what it’s like to be dead, and whether writing great books has earned them any merit in the afterlife.”
Nonfiction: Christie Watson Is a Lovely Writer — and, Judging From This Book, a Gifted Nurse
In the memoir “The Language of Kindness,” Watson — better known as a novelist — looks back at her two decades as a nurse at an urban British hospital.
'Red Waters Rising' Leads Old Friends Into New Trouble
Laura Anne Gilman winds up her Devil's West trilogy with a fascinating story of tension and friction between old friends and new enemies, marred only by some odd choices at the end.
(Image credit: Saga Press)
Nonfiction: Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays Consider the Novelist’s Craft
In “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel,” a new essay collection, the author of “The Queen of the Night” argues that writing fiction involves allowing yourself to become someone else.
Fiction: Fleeing a Caribbean Plantation Into a Mythic Wilderness
Patrick Chamoiseau’s novel “Slave Old Man” is a kind of action pastoral, tracing a desperate escape from a savage master and his monstrous mastiff.
Books of The Times: What the Living Can Learn by Looking Death Straight in the Eye
In “Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them),” Sallie Tisdale writes about what she’s learned from spending time with the dying.
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