Sabaa Tahir’s New Y.A. Novel Poignantly Explores the Meaning of Home
“All My Rage” is a love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever about home when you feel you don’t fit in.
A Tour of Writing’s History Bounces From Script to Script
In “The Greatest Invention,” Silvia Ferrera offers a dizzying and entertaining tour of written language.
In a Debut Novel, Humans Are Scarce and Humanity Is Scarcer
“The Doloriad,” by Missouri Williams, imagines a large coterie of siblings dwelling in a bleak future.
When Relationship Problems Mirror the Struggles of a Nation
In his debut novel, “Groundskeeping,” Lee Cole arranges an unlikely courtship on a college campus.
What Does Alzheimer’s Disease Do to a Marriage?
Amy Bloom’s midlife love story was interrupted by a dreaded diagnosis. In her memoir, “In Love,” she writes about what happened next.
Online Dating Can Kill You. Literally.
In Jane Pek’s debut novel, “The Verifiers,” an unlikely sleuth starts out researching digital Casanovas — and finds herself involved in a possible murder.
‘Eyesight Compromised. Could Go Blind.’
In “The Beauty of Dusk,” Frank Bruni grapples with the effects of a stroke and finds solace — and wisdom — in talking to people who have suffered similar losses.
An Essayist Navigates the Labyrinth of American Health Care. Barely.
In the collection “Cost of Living,” Emily Maloney investigates the costs — emotional, physical and financial — of being sick.
Day Jobs
What your favorite writers might have done if they hadn’t written.
The Invention of the Index
Dennis Duncan discusses “Index, a History of the,” and Brendan Slocumb talks about “The Violin Conspiracy.”
Arctic Explorers, New Jersey Literature and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Newly Published, From Putin’s Russia to Pinball
A selection of books published this week.
New in Paperback: ‘How Beautiful We Were’ and ‘The Cult of We’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Westerners Who Supported Indian Independence
Ramachandra Guha’s “Rebels Against the Raj” recounts the lives of seven outsiders who sided with Indian nationalists against the British.
Funny Genre-Bending Fiction From the Creators of ‘Dragons Love Tacos’ and the ‘Spy School’ Series
Adam Rubin’s “The Ice Cream Machine” dishes on short story collections, Stuart Gibbs’s “Once Upon a Tim” on knightly adventure.
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
New Crime and Mystery Novels
In Valerie Wilson Wesley’s new novel, “A Fatal Glow,” a Realtor-turned-caterer investigates the death of an exceedingly unpleasant businessman.
Lisa Gardner, the Thriller Writer Who Loves Historical Romance
“Witty dialogue, great characters, steamy sex. What’s not to like?”
From Thriller to Fantasy to Horror, the Genre Series Is the Cash Cow
All six of the novels that have entered the best-seller list this week are continuations of stories or characters readers have encountered before.
How Donald Trump Captured the Republican Party
As Jeremy W. Peters tells us in “Insurgency,” when Steve Bannon first heard Trump speak, he thought of Hitler — and that was a compliment.
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