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In “Alice Knott,” Blake Butler tells a twisting story in which famous paintings are destroyed and a woman wrestles with the elusive memories of her past.
Colin Dickey talks about “The Unidentified,” and Miles Harvey discusses “The King of Confidence.”
Riley Sager’s “Home Before Dark,” Anna Downes’s “No Safe Place” and Eve Chase’s “The Daughters of Foxcote Manor.”
With nods to Narnia, Hogwarts, E. Nesbit and Frances Hodgson Burnett, Hilary McKay’s “The Time of Green Magic” is a love letter to the literary canon.
In Araminta Hall’s “Imperfect Women,” three old pals find they don’t know one another quite as well as they once did. And then one of them is murdered.
“Afterland,” a neo-noir, coast-to-coast chase novel, takes place after a pandemic has wiped out 99 percent of the men in the world.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Kate Reed Petty’s “True Story,” focuses on the rippling, decades-long impact from a high school sexual assault.
Alice Feeney’s detective story shows just how small the world is for people who would rather not find each other.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In his new best seller about the practice of family separation, the NBC News correspondent does not mince words.
In Stan Parish’s new novel, “Love and Theft,” a Vegas jewel heist goes off perfectly. Or does it?
“Especially the most amazingly weird and right sentence with ‘lasagna’ in it.”
An excerpt from “The Pull of the Stars,” by Emma Donoghue
An excerpt from “The Unidentified,” by Colin Dickey
The latest crop of horror fiction includes “Malorie” — Josh Malerman’s sequel to “Bird Box” — as well as “Mexican Gothic,” “Wonderland” and more.
Robert J. Mrazek’s “The Indomitable Florence Finch” is the story of a Filipino woman who saved American lives, survived torture and lived to be 101.
In “How You Say It,” Katherine Kinzler focuses on linguistic discrimination, how your accent can determine the way you are perceived.
“The Road From Raqqa,” by Jordan Ritter Conn, retraces the divergent paths of two siblings through Syria’s civil war.
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