Book Review: ‘I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself,’ by Marisa Crane
In Marisa Crane’s debut novel, “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself,” a queer, grieving mother must learn how to raise a newborn baby who is marked from birth as a bad actor.
How Failure Defines the Writing Life
The public sees writers only during their victories, but their lives are spent mainly in defeat.
‘Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages’
Sadie Stein, an editor at the Book Review, discusses Carmela Ciuraru’s new group biography with the host Gilbert Cruz.
Review: ‘Scorched Grace,’ by Margot Douaihy
In the novel “Scorched Grace,” a tattooed, chain-smoking, swearing-prone nun turns out to be a crack detective.
Book Review: ‘Have Mercy on Us,’ by Lisa Cupolo; ‘Call and Response,’ by Gothataone Moeng; ‘Welcome Me to the Kingdom,’ by Mai Nardone
“Have Mercy on Us” moves from Greece to Kenya to California; “Call and Response” is set in Botswana; “Welcome Me to the Kingdom” explores Bangkok’s dark corners.
Book Review: ‘Unscripted,” by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams
“Unscripted,” an account by the Times journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams of the media titan Sumner Redstone’s final years, is a chronicle of corporate greed, manipulation, misogyny and sexual impropriety on a spectacular scale.
When the Novel Swiped Right
Contemporary fiction writers have only just begun to address the dating app revolution, but when they do the results are often new, bold stories about human connection and desire.
Book Review: “The Windeby Puzzle: History and Story,” by Lois Lowry
“The Windeby Puzzle” begins in 1952, when a small, remarkably well-preserved body is unearthed from a bog in northern Germany.
Review: ‘My Last Innocent Year,’ by Daisy Alpert Florin
Daisy Alpert Florin’s debut novel, “My Last Innocent Year,” is a coming-of-age novel set on a college campus near the close of the last century.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Book Review: ‘The Wife of Bath,’ by Marion Turner
A new book traces the “biography” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s most enduring character and her impact on the course of English literature.
Book Review: ‘Sterling Karat Gold,’ by Isabel Waidner
In Isabel Waidner’s novel “Sterling Karat Gold,” a violent attack on a nonbinary immigrant leads to a surreal, Kafkaesque tribunal.
Boring Book Events? Not for Grady Hendrix.
The author of “How to Sell a Haunted House” learned the hard way that standing at the front of a mostly empty bookstore is no fun.
New Historical Fiction: Novels Rooted in History and a Sense of Place
Three new books whisk readers to days of yore in Italy, Scandinavia and Palestine.
Book Review: ‘Our Share of Night,’ by Mariana Enriquez
“Our Share of Night,” by Mariana Enriquez, is a bewitching brew of mystery, myth, wealthy occultists and mediums who can summon “the Darkness.”
Jojo Moyes’s Grandmother Knew a Bookworm When She Saw One
“It wasn’t a compliment,” says the writer, whose latest novel is “Someone Else’s Shoes.” “My weekly visits to her were usually spent with my nose buried between the pages.”
Newly Published, From Hip Hop Style to Psychic Weapons
A selection of books published this week.
Book Review: ‘Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical,’ by Laurie Winer
Laurie Winer’s new book, “Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical,” takes the measure of Sondheim’s mentor and spiritual godfather.
Book Review: ‘The Declassification Engine,’ by Matthew Connelly
In “The Declassification Engine,” Matthew Connelly traces the evolution of America’s obsession with secrecy and the alarming implications for our understanding of the past.
Book Review: ‘Skull Water,’ by Heinz Insu Fenkl
In Heinz Insu Fenkl’s autobiographical novel “Skull Water,” a 1970s teenager suffers a grief that connects him to his forebears.
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