Four Thrilling New Romance Novels
New romance novels brim with shining, seductive, beautifully crafted sentences.
Review: ‘Biography of X,’ by Catherine Lacey
Catherine Lacey’s new novel follows a polarizing artist through a fractured country.
Book Review: ‘Meganets,’ by David B. Auerbach
Who’s really in charge of our online behavior? No one, David Auerbach argues in “Meganets.”
Book Review: ‘Wandering Souls,’ by Cecile Pin
In Cecile Pin’s debut novel, “Wandering Souls,” the tale of three young Vietnamese migrants transforms into a larger meditation about how and why refugee stories are told.
The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls
The writer of “The Glass Castle” starts a new chapter with a rip-roaring novel set during Prohibition.
The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls
The writer of “The Glass Castle” starts a new chapter with a rip-roaring novel set during Prohibition.
She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway.
In her new novel, “Biography of X,” Lacey dreams up a larger-than-life, narcissistic artist, and rewrites American history to tell her story.
Book Review: ‘The People’s Hospital,’ by Ricardo Nuila
In “The People’s Hospital,” Ricardo Nuila explores the ways in which a space for those stranded by the American health care system serves as an unlikely model.
Book Review: “The Nursery,” by Szilvia Molnar
In her debut novel, “The Nursery,” Szilvia Molnar paints an honest, frightening and claustrophobic picture of new motherhood.
Book Review: ‘Commitment,’ by Mona Simpson
In Mona Simpson’s new novel, “Commitment,” a precariously functioning family fractures under the pressure of mental illness. Or does it?
In Rehearsal One Minute, Laid Off the Next: The Fate of Broadway’s ‘Room’
Actors were two weeks into rehearsals when the show, which was set to star the Tony-winning actress Adrienne Warren, was postponed indefinitely.
What We’re Reading
Gilbert Cruz talks to Book Review staff members about the books they’ve been enjoying lately.
Book Review: “Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar,” by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, and “Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!,” written by Tonya Bolden and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie
Before her, guitarists played the blues, and mostly sat down doing it. Sister Rosetta Tharpe stepped out.
What Happens on Page 76 in This Season’s New Books?
The artist Didier William envisions new releases by Victor LaValle, Mona Simpson and more.
Jailed in Egypt at 17, He Wrote to Survive and to Share His Long Ordeal
Sentenced as a teenager to 15 years for “unlawful assembly,” Abdelrahman ElGendy started recording the abuses of prison life. The idea of someday publishing his memoir gave him a reason to live.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Broadway’s ‘Room,’ Starring Adrienne Warren, Postpones Run Indefinitely
The show, scheduled to open in April at the James Earl Jones Theater, was adapted from Emma Donoghue’s best-selling 2010 novel.
Trang Thanh Tran Has a Song for That
From Pomplamoose to MXMS to Taylor Swift, this best-selling author’s playlist is tailored to all the moods in “She Is a Haunting.”
Book Review: ‘Still Life With Bones,’ by Alexa Hagerty
In “Still Life With Bones,” Alexa Hagerty recounts her training in the science of forensic exhumation at mass grave sites in Guatemala and Argentina — and what such work means for the families of victims.
Mona Simpson’s Fiancé Promised to Read ‘Middlemarch.’ He Never Did. Now He’s Her Ex.
“Certain men are constitutionally incapable of reading one of the greatest novels ever written,” says the author, whose new novel is “Commitment.”
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