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Clare Beams’s “The Illness Lesson,” Lee Matalone’s “Home Making” and Melissa Anne Peterson’s “Vera Violet” all star female protagonists at odds with their social surroundings.
In her debut novel, “The Schrödinger Girl,” Laurel Brett uses a collegiate affair to make a quantum theoretical question literal.
Brace yourself for stories that are twisted in the best sense of the word.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Matches Made Between the Covers
Celeste Ng talks about the journey of “Little Fires Everywhere” from her head to Hulu.
As a girl, the author of “Wild” and “Tiny Beautiful Things” spent hours studying Scholastic book club catalogs. But “my family was too poor to pay for the books,” she says.
Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s novel “The Mercies” takes the Vardo witch trials in 17th-century Norway as its premise.
“The Big Goodbye: ‘Chinatown’ and the Last Years of Hollywood,” by Sam Wasson, contains plenty of nuggets about a classic movie.
Is romance the most scripted human experience there is?
Stealing military secrets, plotting a presidential assassination, spreading disinformation: It’s all in a day’s work in these recent titles.
Claude McKay’s “Romance in Marseille,” published decades after it was written, tackles race and migration in a globally connected world much like our own.
Jason Hardy spent four years as a probation and parole officer in New Orleans. In “The Second Chance Club,” he recounts what he learned on the job.
A new history follows the icons and socialites of the Côte d’Azur before the rise of fascism.
An excerpt from “Something That May Shock and Discredit You,” by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
An excerpt from “The King at the Edge of the World,” by Arthur Phillips
An excerpt from “Indelicacy,” by Amina Cain
An excerpt from “The Resisters,” by Gish Jen
An excerpt from “Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy,” by Eilene Zimmerman
Madeline Levine’s new book has a message for anyone raising kids: Get squiggly.
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