Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
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: Ernesto Montenegro on “Desolación,” by Gabriela Mistral.
Nonfiction: The Power of Pissed-Off Women
“Good and Mad,” by Rebecca Traister, and “Rage Becomes Her,” by Soraya Chemaly, argue that women’s anger is unappreciated as a catalyst for political change.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Fiction: The #MeToo Movement Gets Its Novel
In Kate Walbert’s “His Favorites,” a woman once groomed by her charismatic prep-school English teacher decides to reckon with the relationship.
Gather Around The Fall Fires With These 4 YA Novels
Fall is finally here, and as the days grow shorter and colder, it's time to tell tall tales about girls who survive, girls who fight, and girls who, if given the chance, may prove to be heroes.
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Wartime Sins And Secrets Haunt 'Transcription'
Kate Atkinson's new novel follows a young woman recruited to Britain's MI5 spy agency during World War II. Juliet's wartime deeds may come back to haunt her — but she still has her old spy skills.
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By the Book: America Ferrera: By the Book
The actor and editor of the new anthology “American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures” would love to see Harry Potter get the “Game of Thrones” treatment: “I’m here for 80 hours of a darker and more detailed adaptation.”
Fiction: Giving Voice to Homer’s Women
In “The Silence of the Girls,” Pat Barker channels the voices of the women in the “Iliad,” treated as sexual treasure to be raped by conquering warriors.
Fiction: ‘Ohio’ as the Locus of 21st-Century Rust Belt Despair
In Stephen Markley’s debut novel, former classmates reunite to witness the toll contemporary American realities have taken on them all.
Ivory Tower: Unpublished and Untenured, a Philosopher Inspired a Cult Following
Irad Kimhi has never held a tenured position or published even a journal article. Yet his ideas have earned him a towering reputation and now he’s finally published a book.
In 'Hiking With Nietzsche,' Challenges Are Seen Through The Philosopher's Teachings
John Kaag extracts ideas from Nietzsche and his followers — but also from his own experience — in this stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection.
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'The Deeper The Water The Uglier The Fish' Is A Darkly Beautiful Debut
Katya Apekina's debut novel follows a pair of sisters sent to live with their estranged father in New York, challenging the bonds between parents and siblings.
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Nonfiction: A Graphic Memoir That Confronts the Weirdness Within
Liana Finck’s “Passing for Human” tells the story of a woman who grapples with her alienation through drawing.
Fiction: A Novel of World War II Espionage With an Unlikely Heroine
In Kate Atkinson’s “Transcription,” a naïve young secretary lands in the middle of a clandestine fifth-column operation run by MI5.
Children’s Books: A Playful, Posthumous Picture Book From Maurice Sendak
“Presto and Zesto in Limboland,” a collaboration with the writer and director Arthur Yorinks, weaves a zany tale out of 10 inimitably Sendakian images.
'The Shape Of The Ruins' Is Baggy, Discursive, But True At Its Core
Juan Gabriel Vásquez's new novel is packed with history, alternate history and conspiracies — though ultimately it's about neither history nor politics, but how they combine to shape one man.
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Fiction: A Rifle-Wielding Nun, a Medical Student and a Crackling World War I Tale
Daniel Mason is an old-fashioned storyteller, and “The Winter Soldier” — set in a remote hamlet on the Eastern Front — is tremendous fun.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: Congressional Bloodshed: The Run-Up to the Civil War
In “The Field of Blood,” Joanne Freeman documents the outlandish violence in Washington as the country was heading toward the deadliest American war.
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