The Best New Thriller Novels
Our columnist on the month’s best releases.
Book Review: ‘Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,’ by Kristen Arnett
Kristen Arnett’s new novel, “Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One,” follows a woman grappling with grief and love while pursuing her true passion: clowning.
Book Review: ‘Rooms for Vanishing,’ by Stuart Nadler
In Stuart Nadler’s novel “Rooms for Vanishing,” four characters search for and grieve one another across separate timelines.
Book Review: ‘The Fisherman’s Gift,’ by Julia R. Kelly
In “The Fisherman’s Gift,” a man finds a lost child on a Scottish beach after a storm, a discovery that unlocks a town’s suppressed drama.
Book Review: ‘Funny Because It’s True,’ by Christine Wenc
In “Funny Because It’s True,” Christine Wenc offers an idiosyncratic history of The Onion, the publication that made the media its chief satirical target.
Book Review: ‘Saving Five,’ by Amanda Nguyen
In “Saving Five,” Amanda Nguyen tells a winding story of pain, justice and stratospheric accomplishment.
What to Know About the New ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel, ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’
“Sunrise on the Reaping” further expands the world of Panem, focusing on Haymitch Abernathy’s story.
Book Review: ‘The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,’ by Stephen Graham Jones
In “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,” a Blackfeet man is transformed into an undead bloodsucker and seeks vengeance for America’s sins.
Book Review: ‘Hot Air,’ by Marcy Dermansky
Marcy Dermansky’s novel “Hot Air” plunges two couples — one old, one new; one rich, one not — into the deep end, together.
He Dreamed Up Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer. It All Started With L.A.
For almost four decades, Michael Connelly has set his characters loose in a city of big dreams and lucky breaks. Now they’re facing an altered landscape. So is he.
Herman Graf, Who Helped Sell ‘Tropic of Cancer,’ Dies at 91
A major figure in independent publishing, he promoted Henry Miller’s once-banned book and helped make “A Confederacy of Dunces” a best seller after the author’s death.
Book Review: ‘When the Going Was Good,’ by Graydon Carter
The former Vanity Fair editor reflects on an era’s power moves and expense-account adventures in a new memoir.
‘Song of the North’ Uses Puppets to Help a Persian Epic Spring to Life
Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.
Book Review: ‘Trespassers at the Golden Gate,’ by Gary Krist
When a woman shot her married lover in 1870s San Francisco, all of America took sides.
Book Review: ‘Red Scare,’ by Clay Risen
In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.
Picture-Book Editions of Two Children’s Stories by Clarice Lispector
In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be.
Book Review: ‘Perfection,’ by Vincenzo Latronico
Vincenzo Latronico’s novel “Perfection” explores the capital of Europe’s expat scene in its heyday.
Felice Picano, Champion of Gay Literature, Is Dead at 81
At a time when, in his words, “nobody was writing about gay life,” he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and published books by Harvey Fierstein and others.
John Feinstein, Sportswriter and Author of ‘A Season on the Brink,’ Dies at 69
A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, golf, football and the Olympics, many of them best sellers.
Jennifer Johnston, Irish Novelist Who Probed Country’s Fault Lines, Dies at 95
She explored tensions among the social classes and within families in fiction that prompted Roddy Doyle to call her “Ireland’s greatest writer.”
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