New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: International Books of Mystery
Detective stories from around the world.
The New Vanguard
Our critics chose 15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.
Nonfiction: How Businesses Became People
In “We the Corporations,” Adam Winkler recounts the history of American companies’ efforts to shape the law to their advantage.
Fiction: Sex, Lies and Subterfuge Roil Joyce Carol Oates’s New Story Collection
Whether they’re lovers, parents, professors or kids, the characters in these stories all have something to hide.
Two Brits Achieve Artistic Balance In 'Valerie's Head'
Author David Gaffney and illustrator Dan Berry bring just the right amount of nuttiness to their new graphic novel, about a woman who keeps the memories of disappointing exes in a cellar in her mind.
(Image credit: Top Shelf Productions)
'A Place Of Darkness' Is An Illuminating History Of Horror
Kendall R. Phillips' new look at early American horror movies is academic, sure — but its central arguments make for great reading about how shifting cultural currents shape what scares us on screen.
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Deep, Compassionate 'Tess Of The Road' Contains A Whole World
Rachel Hartman follows up Seraphina and Shadow Scale with the story of Tess, a rebellious young woman who runs away to escape being sent to a nunnery, and finds pain and growth along her road.
(Image credit: Random House Books for Young Readers)
The Book Review Podcast: A Marine’s Inventive Memoir
Matt Young discusses “Eat the Apple,” and A. O. Scott talks about Martin Amis’s “The Rub of Time.”
Sketchbook | Literary Resolutions: Book Ambition
A graphic pep talk for the literary year ahead.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Inside the List: Spinning a Brutal Off-the-Grid Childhood into a Gripping Memoir
In “Educated,” Tara Westover recounts her remarkable journey from a remote mountainside in Idaho to Cambridge University.
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: Joseph Wood Krutch and the future’s inevitability.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
The Shortlist: Putting Down the Scalpel, Picking Up the Pen
Four memoirs by doctors who explore the line that divides their identities as healers from that of fellow human beings.
Nonfiction: When Growing Old Is a Blessing
John Leland’s book “Happiness Is a Choice You Make” chronicles the unlikely virtues of aging.
Children’s Books: New Y.A. Books by Women of Color Rewrite Old Cultural Scripts
In books by Dhonielle Clayton, Tomi Adeyemi and others, teenagers from around the globe are inventive, romantic and above all empowered.
Fiction: Young and Adrift in New York City
Hermione Hoby’s first novel, “Neon in Daylight,” offers a fresh take on the romance of urban life.
Nonfiction: Getting Better All the Time?
In “It’s Better Than It Looks,” Gregg Easterbrook argues the case for optimism in a time of troubles.
Crime: Disappearing Acts: A Shelf of Missing-Person Mysteries
Crime novels by Jane Harper, Robin Oliveira, Christobel Kent and Steve Cavanagh probe the fate of women and girls: some just gone, some gone for good.
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