Open Book: TV, Pre-Golden Age
In “Little Boxes,” writers share how they were influenced by TV shows, in the days before prestige TV.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Children’s Books: All Kinds of Outrageous Behavior in These New Picture Books
A little seed who’s unapologetically bad, a horrible baby brother, the kid who won’t stop screaming and more.
The Shortlist: Stories of Familial Unrest and Displacement
Four new novels set around the globe explore the causes and consequences of family estrangement.
Fiction: James Kelman’s ‘Dirt Road’ Travels a Path to Solace
A father and son escape painful reminders of their lost loved ones in Scotland to discover a new outlook in the American South.
Fiction: A Sydney Bridge, a Falling Man and Three Witnesses to a Miracle
The stories of three Australians in three different centuries are linked by a miraculous vision in Ashley Hay’s “The Body in the Clouds.”
Critic’s Take: The Novels Explaining Britain’s Path From the Raj to Brexit
Revisiting Paul Scott’s “The Raj Quartet,” 70 years after the partition of India and Pakistan.
Nonfiction: The Man Whose Cabinet of Curios Helped Start the British Museum
James Delbourgo’s “Collecting the World” recounts the life of Sir Hans Sloane, a pioneering natural scientist.
Fiction: The Posh, Psychological Thrills of ‘The Party’
Elizabeth Day dissects the 21st-century British class system in this novel rife with literary allusions.
Fiction: When Friendship Ends, Does Betrayal Begin?
The teenagers in Claire Messud’s novel “The Burning Girl” have always been best friends. Now they’re growing painfully, possibly dangerously, apart.
Fiction: Mother and Daughter in a Doomsday Cult
In Rebecca Wait’s novel “The Followers,” a lonely woman and her child are lured into an isolated community on the Yorkshire moors.
Nonfiction: A Memoir of Dieting in the Age of Total Body Vigilance
In “Beautiful Bodies,” Kimberly Rae Miller recounts her lifelong addiction to deprivation through dieting.
'Spettacolo' Lovingly Chronicles A Tuscan Theatrical Tradition In Decline
Once a year, for 51 years, residents of the Tuscan hamlet Monticchielo have staged a play about their lives. A new documentary finds the town's younger generation is losing interest in the practice.
(Image credit: Mark Jenkins /Grasshopper Film)
A Knock Unanswered, A Body Unmourned: 'The Unknown Girl'
Sorry, Wrong Nombre: Directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, known for stripped-down social realist dramas, bring their spare aesthetic to a surprisingly pulpy murder mystery.
(Image credit: Sundance Selects)
Shining a Light on Campus Rape
Vanessa Grigoriadis’s fascinating but often frustrating “Blurred Lines” is a kaleidoscopic tour through the campus sexual assault controversy.
Editors' Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Book News: Steinbeck’s Heir Wins Lawsuit
A dispute that dragged on for years, and involved none of the author’s blood relatives, is settled.
Reader's Notebook: Change Is in the Air at the E. B. White Farm
Discovering the author’s home in Maine, where he wrote “Charlotte’s Web” and heard those darn crickets.
Addiction Is A Family Affair In 'Mayhem'
Sigrid Rausing is heir to a packaging fortune and a global philanthropist, but her new memoir describes a painfully ordinary family tragedy: her sister-in-law's drug addiction, struggle and death.
(Image credit: Christina Ascani/NPR)
People And Animals, 'Falling And Flying,' Make For A Hypnotic Read
Ben Loory's new story collection is dreamlike in the best way: both cheerfully surreal and cosmically unsettling, full of lovelorn cephalopods, discontented sloths and the occasional darker touch.
(Image credit: Christina Ascani/NPR)
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