In “Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader,” the revered memoirist makes an urgent argument for the value of returning to a book you’ve already read.
In “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers,” Jenn Shapland describes how studying the novelist, who died in 1967, helped her reckon with her own identity.
“A Woman Like Her,” by Sanam Maher, investigates the killing of a 26-year-old social-media celebrity by her brother, and a culture in which independent, outspoken women are not easily tolerated.
Deepa Anappara’s novel “Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line” probes the secrets of a shantytown as a 9-year-old boy tries to solve the mystery of a classmate’s disappearance.
This week, Kevin Wilson reviews Stephen Wright’s new novel, “Processed Cheese.” In 2006, Laura Miller wrote for the Book Review about “The Amalgamation Polka,” Wright’s novel about the descendant of both ardent abolitionists and unwavering slaveholders.