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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nonfiction: What the Greek Myths Teach Us About Anger in Troubled Times
In “Enraged,” Emily Katz Anhalt shows how the earliest works of Western literature questioned the values of the society that produced it.
By the Book: Nicole Krauss: By the Book
The author of “Great House,” “The History of Love” and, most recently, “Forest Dark” prefers to read classic novels on the plane: “Twelve hours in economy is not the moment to gamble on a book.”
John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’: An Excerpt
George Smiley returns in this coda to le Carré’s classic, “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.”
Book News: Boys Puberty Book is Pulped After Aging Badly
A passage about breasts in “Growing Up for Boys” leads to some awkward conversations for a British publisher.
Fiery And Nuanced, 'Tales Of Two Americas' Sheds Light On Economic Inequality
This collection of essays, poems, and short stories — edited by John Freeman — makes for a gripping and intensely personal examination of inequality, transience and displacement in America.
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'The World Of Tomorrow' Is A Huge Story, Told Intimately
Brendan Mathew's The World of Tomorrow follows three Irish brothers having the best (or the worst) week of their lives, in 1939 New York. It's a serious literary novel, but full of madcap flourishes.
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Nonfiction: In Praise of the Black Men and Women Who Built Detroit
In ‘Black Detroit,’ Herb Boyd celebrates the city’s rich history through its unsung heroes.
Nonfiction: Mikhail Gorbachev Brought Democracy to Russia and Was Despised for It
William Taubman’s definitive new biography, “Gorbachev,” describes a leader who was celebrated abroad, reviled at home.
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