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Children’s literature about Jewish experience is obsessively focused on the Holocaust, Marjorie Ingall argues. As a result, kids learn that the worst thing that ever happened to Jews is the cornerstone of Jewish identity.
“Getting to read fiction purely for pleasure is the carrot I hold out for myself as a reward for the work of reporting and writing.”
The author of “The Body Keeps Score” awaits news of his standing each week — and pays close attention to what his readers have to say.
In a new biography, Ellen Stern brings the great Broadway caricaturist to life.
In “The Mediterranean Wall,” “Disquiet” and “Bolla,” characters escape one challenge only to meet many others.
Two novels and a graphic memoir tackle weighty issues, with grace and good humor.
“Falling,” “Seat 7A” and “Hostage” have one thing in common: altitude. Buckle up, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
In “The Drop,” Thad Ziolkowski explores the ways that surfing both acts as a “parable” for addiction and might provide a cure for it.
Carolyn Ferrell’s beautifully hair-raising debut novel takes readers into a house of horrors where some survivors have a better chance than others.
Dana Spiotta’s new novel explores a middle-aged fantasy of solitude to great effect.
Keith Ridgway’s “A Shock” initially looks like a collection of loosely linked stories, but reveals itself to be an expertly built house of mirrors.
In “The Very Nice Box,” set at an Ikea-like furniture company, Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman deliver workplace drama with a twist.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Forster’s novel featured a rare happy ending for gay characters. William di Canzio’s new book, “Alec,” picks up and continues their story.
“Couple Found Slain,” by Mikita Brottman, offers an accounting of the criminal mental health system.
New fiction spans gang violence in London, a fundamentalist regime in North Africa, Brooklyn gentrification and the Black diaspora in Brazil.
Featuring a C.I.A. agent with secrets in her past, potentially violent religious extremists and a risky op in Hamburg, “The Cover Wife,” by Dan Fesperman, gives imaginative twists to events plucked from our near past.
“Fox & I” is Catherine Raven’s memoir of her relationship with a bushy-tailed creature — no, not a dog.
The heroine of “Build Your House Around My Body,” a half-Vietnamese American in her 20s, languishes abroad.
In her debut novel, “The Paper Palace,” Miranda Cowley Heller follows an upper-crust family through decades at their bohemian backwoods compound.
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