Fiction: His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel.
In “Patient X,” David Peace explores the conflicted career of the great Japanese writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa, who committed suicide when only 35.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'Bitter Orange' Keeps The Tension Simmering
Claire Fuller's finely crafted psychological thriller follows a seemingly mousy, buttoned-up woman who becomes embroiled in a strange, voyeuristic triangle over the course of a country house summer.
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Nonfiction: Is All Art Sacred Art? In a Prose Meditation, One Poet Makes the Case
Christian Wiman’s strangely powerful new book, “He Held Radical Light,” argues for the inherent holiness of art.
Three Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historians Aim To Put American Politics In Context
In new books, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Joseph J. Ellis — also Jon Meacham whose tome hit shelves in May — aim to contextualize or contrast the Trump era with the leadership of previous presidents.
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By the Book: Susan Orlean: By the Book
The author, most recently, of “The Library Book” says visitors might be surprised to see a copy of “Storey’s Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Edition” on her shelves: “I recommend it over the third edition.”
Nonfiction: Waging War From the Oval Office
Michael Beschloss’s “Presidents of War” looks at the pressures on chief executives when they make the ultimate decision to risk American lives.
Q. & A.: Haruki Murakami Says He Doesn’t Dream. He Writes.
The Japanese author’s intensely popular fiction plays at the boundary between the real and the surreal, between regular life and irregular happenings.
Fiction: Stephen King Reviews Tana French’s ‘Extraordinary’ New Novel
In “The Witch Elm,” squabbles and accusations rend an Irish family after kids find a human skull wedged in a tree on their property.
The Finalists For The 2018 National Book Awards
"This year instead of just celebrating the best American literature, we're celebrating the best literature in America," said Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation.
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'The Reckonings,' Examines What It Means To Have Justice
Writing about topics as diverse as race, sexual assault, Hurricane Harvey, and art history, Lacy M. Johnson's essays are together a philosophy in disguise — equal parts memoir, criticism, and ethics.
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Light And Dark, Characters Shine In 'Blanca & Roja'
Anna-Marie McLemore braids old bits of myth about swans and cursed sisters into a new, more inward-looking story that lets readers see just how hard it is to be a character in a fairy tale.
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Nonfiction: A New Biography Presents Gandhi, Warts and All
Ramachandra Guha’s “Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948” takes Gandhi on his own terms but does not gloss over the flaws.
'Presidents Of War' Sounds The Alarm About Presidential Power
In his new book, Michael Beschloss focuses on the lead up to war. But a more pressing danger and indictment of presidential power may be the interventions not authorized by Congress.
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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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