In 1980s Glasgow, a World of Pain Made Bearable by Love
Douglas Stuart’s “Shuggie Bain” follows a boy and his family as things go from bad to worse to excruciating in a fierce but loving tale.
The Masculine Mystique: A New Kind of Trans Memoir
Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s “Something That May Shock and Discredit You” contains hilarious, transcendent “memoir-adjacent” essays on gender.
The Myth of the Silent, Sulky, Horny Teenage Boy
Two new books challenge the assumption that it’s impossible to reach that kid with the wispy mustache. In fact, reaching him is more important than ever.
New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Caffeine to the Space Race
A selection of recent audiobooks of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Zonked on Vicodin in the Corner Office
Jay McInerney on two new accounts of drug addiction in the white-collar world.
When All the World’s at War, Only Theater Feels Real
Daniel Kehlmann’s “Tyll” follows an impish entertainer and his merry crew as they navigate the havoc of Europe during the Thirty Years’ War.
The Future Is Here, and Uncomfortably Close to Home
In “The Resisters,” Gish Jen’s novel of dystopian America, the have-nots are unemployed and forced to eat food that will kill them. But it’s not all doom and gloom.
Giving Voice to the Victims of Growth
Carolyn Chute’s “The Recipe for Revolution” is a sprawling tale of impoverished outsiders, rural cults, militia groups and teenage activists.
Their Parents Were Holocaust Survivors. That Wasn’t Their Only Secret.
Helen Fremont’s second memoir, “The Escape Artist,” builds on the traumatic discoveries of her first, “After Long Silence.”
A Rich, Old-Fashioned Spy Thriller Set in Elizabethan England
In “The King at the Edge of the World,” by Arthur Phillips, a Muslim physician becomes a pawn in a game of international political chess.
If Your Brother Committed a Terrorist Act, Would You Forgive Him?
The heroine of S.M. Hulse’s second novel, “Eden Mine,” reckons with extremism in her family.
Highways Through Hell
“Overground Railroad,” by Candacy Taylor, and “Driving While Black,” by Gretchen Sorin, chronicle the dangers for black Americans on the road during Jim Crow, and the travel guides that assisted them.
Meet ‘the Pablo Escobar of the Falcon Egg Trade’
In his new book, “The Falcon Thief,” Joshua Hammer exposes the world’s most notorious wild-bird trafficker.
Strangers’ Things: A Journalist Finds Grace in Other People’s Stories
After he suffered a health crisis, Jeff Sharlet began talking to and photographing the people he met. “This Brilliant Darkness” is the poignant record of those encounters.
Sexism and Genius Collide ‘In the Land of Men’
Adrienne Miller’s memoir chronicles her tenure as fiction editor of Esquire in the 1990s and her rocky relationship with David Foster Wallace, the era’s iconic novelist.
A Love Letter to Old-Fashioned Department Stores
The romantic adventures of salesladies in 1950s Sydney come alive in Madeleine St. John’s gentle comedy of manners, “The Women in Black.”
Leslie Jamison on Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’
Jamison talks about Offill’s new novel, and Courtney Maum talks about “Before and After the Book Deal.”
New Literary Prize Will Award Over $100,000 to a Female Novelist
The Carol Shields Prize is an effort to raise the visibility of women writers, in part with a sum that far exceeds many other book awards.
I Dreaded Black History Month, Until a Novelist Opened My Eyes
In Christopher Paul Curtis’s books, the historical black experience came to life: the joy, the humor and the triumphs, not just the pain. Others have followed his lead.
Revisiting Marriage and ‘Dept. of Speculation’
This week, Leslie Jamison reviews Jenny Offill’s new novel, “Weather.” In 2014, Roxane Gay wrote for the Book Review about “Dept. of Speculation,” Offill’s novel about a fractured marriage between a writer and a radio broadcaster.
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