‘Super Host,’ by Kate Russo: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Super Host,” by Kate Russo
A Memoir About Queer Identity, Told One Gay Bar at a Time
In his new memoir, “Gay Bar,” Jeremy Atherton Lin documents his personal history and the history of queer identity by exploring gay bars around the world.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Men and Western Women
Hirsi Ali argues in “Prey” that Muslim refugees to Europe pose a threat to feminism and women’s rights.
Book Review: ‘We Run the Tides,’ by Vendela Vida
In Vendela Vida’s new novel, “We Run the Tides,” an eighth-grade friendship in 1980s San Francisco turns on the truth about a local scandal.
We Wore What? Centuries of Global Fashion as a System of Power
Catherine E. McKinley’s “The African Lookbook” and Richard Thompson Ford’s “Dress Codes” revisit the rules and repression imposed by the clothes we wear.
‘Kink’ Is Not a Book About Sex. It’s a Book About, Well, Kink.
R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell’s new story anthology, “Kink,” is about what kink as a practice can unleash.
Joyce Carol Oates’s New Stories Consider the Roads Not Taken
The author’s latest collection, “The (Other) You,” is animated by “what if” questions and different versions of the same life.
A Dead White Girl, a Black Suspect and Justice on the Jersey Shore
Alex Tresniowski’s “The Rope” tells the true story of an ugly crime and a town’s equally ugly racial history.
If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now — Sort of
In Kate Russo’s novel, “Super Host,” a London artist down on his luck opens his home to a series of renters.
Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories
Three new books investigate Lost Cause mythology, justice in post-bellum Kentucky and the vibrant life of New Orleans’s Creole community in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry
Margaret Atwood (with “Dearly”), Barbara Kingsolver (“How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons”) and Joyce Carol Oates (“American Melancholy”) return to a form they have embraced before.
In Beverly Jenkins’s Romance Novels, Black History Is Front and Center
Her latest, “Wild Rain,” stars a young woman who defies family and societal expectations by running her own horse ranch in Wyoming Territory.
Numbers, Speed, Mystery: The World of the Delivery Worker
Peter Mendelsund’s novel “The Delivery” follows an unnamed courier as he learns a cityscape, language and culture.
A Portrait of a Stalwart Life, and of America Itself
Laird Hunt’s novel “Zorrie” is a rich study of a life in rural Indiana, through love and tragedy.
The Love Triangle That Caused a Religious Panic
“Doomed Romance,” by Christine Leigh Heyrman, offers a window onto ambition and hypocrisy in the 19th-century American evangelical movement at a critical moment in its history.
Was Bugsy Siegel the ‘Supreme Gangster’? A Biography Makes the Case
Michael Shnayerson’s “Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream” is a rise-and-fall story of the bootlegger and murderer who practically invented Las Vegas.
Electrons, Photons, Gluons, Quarks: A Nobel-Winning Physicist Explains It All
In “Fundamentals,” Frank Wilczek describes his own love for physics and details what we all need to understand about the forces that shape our physical world.
When Silver Linings Don’t Cut It, Honesty Helps
When Suleika Jaouad was 22, she learned she had leukemia. In her memoir, “Between Two Kingdoms,” she looks back on what got her through.
Chang-rae Lee on His New Novel: ‘It’s Kind of a Crazy Book’
Lee discusses “My Year Abroad,” and Maurice Chammah talks about “Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty.”
New in Paperback: ‘Blowout’ and ‘The Last Trial’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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