Reimagining the Aftermath of a Bomb
Francis Spufford talks about “Light Perpetual,” and Egill Bjarnason discusses “How Iceland Changed the World.”
Ellen Oh’s New Middle Grade Novel Is Not a Fantasy
In “Finding Junie Kim,” a third-generation Korean-American girl gathers strength from her grandmother’s wartime tales to deal with anti-Asian racism.
Battle of the Sexes? For This Voracious Heroine, It’s All-Out War
Lisa Taddeo’s first novel, “Animal,” tells a relentlessly bleak story of a woman warped by psychic wounds who pursues a life of emotional carnage.
Liz Hauck Promised a Warm Meal Every Week. Then She Delivered.
In “Home Made,” a writer looks back on the many dinners she cooked and ate with residents of a Boston home for adolescents.
New in Paperback: ‘Luster’ and ‘Sex and Vanity’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Was Daniel Patrick Moynihan Right About America? And Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
This Is Your Brain on Edward St. Aubyn
St. Aubyn’s new novel, “Double Blind,” examines a wide range of scientific thought, with detours into sex, drugs and venture capital.
‘Food Is Culture’: Alice Waters on the Cookbook That Changed Her Life
“All I wanted to do was live like the French.”
Want the Scoop on Writing and Publishing? Ask Emily Henry.
The best-selling author of “Beach Read” and “People We Meet on Vacation” is generous with her wisdom on Instagram.
New Audiobooks for Your Summer Road Trip
From funny women to Yo-Yo Ma, self-reflection to civil rights, there’s something in the queue for everyone.
New Historical Fiction to Read This Summer
New novels — by turns salty, sweeping and sweet — will transport you to 1930s Italy, 19th-century England and San Francisco a hundred years ago.
This Coming-of-Age Novel Features a Girl on the Cusp of Manhood
Kyle Lukoff’s “Too Bright to See” relates a first-person story of transgender identity.
In This Debut Novel, a Chinese-American Assassin Roams the West
“The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu,” by Tom Lin, is a vengeance quest in an unforgiving landscape during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad.
A Book About Absorbing What We Love Until It Transforms Us
“A Ghost in the Throat,” by Doireann Ni Ghriofa, is part memoir, part literary investigation of a 250-year-old poem.
Three New Memoirs Reveal the ‘Vertigo’ of Life in the Diaspora
Reflections on the languages of migration, from Claudio Lomnitz, Michelle Zauner and Quiara Alegría Hudes.
New & Noteworthy, From Hidden Treasure to a Relic of Slavery
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Tom Lin Makes His Debut With ‘The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu’
Tom Lin is making his debut with “The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu,” a novel that has drawn comparisons to Cormac McCarthy and “True Grit.”
How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past
In “How the Word Is Passed,” the poet and journalist Clint Smith visits nine places to assess how we are reckoning with our racial history and its legacy.
Pulling Back the Curtain on the Lincolns’ Marriage
In “An American Marriage,” Michael Burlingame portrays Abraham and Mary as being constantly at each other’s throat.
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