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Sophie Mackintosh’s “Blue Ticket” imagines a dystopian world in which a girl’s fate is chosen for her.
David Shimer’s “Rigged” provides the history and context behind Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election.
In Jenny Torres Sanchez’ “We Are Not From Here,” three Guatemalan teenagers embark on a harrowing journey through Mexico to the U.S. border.
Erin Entrada Kelly’s “We Dream of Space” follows three siblings, adrift in a dysfunctional family, as they await the shuttle Challenger’s liftoff.
Richard Haass talks about his new primer on global affairs, and Abhrajyoti Chakraborty discusses translated novels.
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“Friends and Strangers,” a new novel by J. Courtney Sullivan, examines the complex dynamic between a young mother and the college student who cares for her new baby.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“I was actually quite pleased.”
The best-selling author and former minority leader for the Georgia House of Representatives has a lot going on, but she still makes time for fiction.
Why the great Russian novelist’s critique of state-sponsored violence bears thinking about now.
In “Muddy Matterhorn,” Heather McHugh embraces puns, anagrams and other wordplay in the service of philosophical inquiry.
An excerpt from “Love,” by Roddy Doyle
An excerpt from “The Biggest Bluff,” Maria Konnikova
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
In “The Biggest Bluff,” Maria Konnikova uses her own experience learning to beat the odds at poker to examine how much of life is chance and how much self-determined.
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