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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.
In S.A. Cosby’s new novel, “Razorblade Tears,” two fathers avenge their sons’ murders in great gothic geysers of blood.
Catherine Steadman talks about her new novel, “The Disappearing Act,” and Michael Dobbs discusses “King Richard,” his new book about Watergate.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
In “Brainscapes,” Rebecca Schwarzlose lays out the ways our brains let us take in information through a process of intricate “mapping.”
“I feel such connection to the human who made it, which delights and moves me. If you can write a joke that is still funny in 100 years, you are great.”
Here’s a look at novels selling like gangbusters in the second week of July, all the way back to 1971.
In “Coming to Our Senses,” Susan R. Barry looks at people who stopped being blind or deaf and then had to adjust to the world.
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
An excerpt from “The Vixen,” by Francine Prose
Mia Bloom and Sophie Moskalenko’s “Pastels and Pedophiles” looks at a dangerous movement that is growing in power.
In Hanna Halperin’s debut novel, “Something Wild,” a family contends with its troubled past and brutal present.
In Beck Dorey-Stein’s first novel, “Rock the Boat,” a 34-year-old woman ends up on the Jersey Shore, right where she started.
Francine Prose’s new novel, “The Vixen,” ushers readers into the rarefied world of old-world publishing.
The novel “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” tells some of the same story, but also departs from the movie in ways small and large.
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