Nonfiction: From Justin Bieber to Martin Buber, Zadie Smith’s Essays Showcase Her Exuberance and Range
The novelist’s latest collection is “Feel Free.”
Otherworldly: The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Monsters, golems and doppelgängers range through these sublime new collections of short fiction.
Zadie Smith Ruminates On Brexit, Bieber And Much, Much More In 'Feel Free'
Smith's massive new essay collection covers a wide assortment of topics, but critic Maureen Corrigan says Feel Free is strongest when it focuses on art and identity.
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Front Burner: Book Highlights Queens in All of Its Deliciousness
The borough is the latest subject of the “111 Places” series of guidebooks.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
'Decarcerating America' Is A Powerful Call For Reform
This new essay, edited by Ernest Drucker, argues that mass incarceration — more than 2 million Americans are locked up — tears at our social fabric and leaves people with no option but to reoffend.
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Nonfiction: In a New Biography of the Bouvier Women, Jealousies Rule
“Jackie, Janet & Lee,” by J. Randy Taraborrelli, reveals bonds as fierce as the scandals that threatened them.
Nonfiction: Who Owns the Elgin Marbles?
In “The Real Life of the Parthenon,” Patricia Vigderman visits classic sites of the ancient world, exploring their complex, contested heritage.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Two Budding Bookworms — and Friends — Seeking Literary Realism
Novels for young readers that tackle the complexities of the human condition.
Nonfiction: An Irish Flâneur, Greeting the Past on His Present Wanderings
John Banville’s “Time Pieces” takes the acclaimed novelist back to the Dublin of his youth, recalling people and places that still live in his memory.
Essay: The Iceman Cometh Out
One of Marvel’s X-Men, Iceman, has finally accepted that he is gay in a comic book series that is breaking new ground for the genre.
For These Unhappy Campers, Trauma Blights Their Lives 'Forevermore'
Kim Fu's new novel about a sleepaway camp sojourn that turns shattering for five young girls. But though the troubles seem tame — thirst and a lack of gummi bears — the horror comes later.
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Only The Mad Will Make It In The World Of 'The Chateau'
Paul Goldberg's new book starts with the death of a famous plastic surgeon — the Butt God of Miami Beach — and never slows down, mining drama, betrayal and crime from a Miami condo board election.
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The Book Review Podcast: Lisa Halliday on ‘Asymmetry’
Halliday discusses her debut novel, and Naomi Novik and Gerald Jonas remember the life and work of Ursula K. Le Guin.
Fiction: Two Novels Trace Parallels Between Past and Present, or Create Them
“The Maze at Windermere,” by Gregory Blake Smith, imagines Newport, R.I., from the 17th century to today. “Peculiar Ground,” by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, does the same for a British estate.
Inside the List: After Setting Her Hair on Fire, Lisa Gardner Decided to Become a Writer
It was the 1980s, she was waitressing, “and there was a lot of Aqua Net involved. I took the hint. No more food service. Lots more time at the keyboard.”
Fiction: What Would It Be Like to Be 400 Years Old?
In Matt Haig’s new novel, “How to Stop Time,” the narrator — born in 1581, and still alive today — seems to be having a midlife crisis.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Children’s Books: One Part Fantasy, One Part Reality Is a Child’s Perfect Formula
In the Dory Fantasmagory books, Abby Hanlon finds the humor — and the coping strategies — in a young heroine’s shifting line between imagination and reality.
Children’s Books: Great New Books for a Child Just Learning to Read
Clever, beautifully illustrated new books from Brian Selznick, Sara Varon and Bryan Collier that are easy to read — and to love.
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