Ben Lerner’s New Novel and the Politics of Language
Garth Risk Hallberg discusses Lerner’s “The Topeka School,” and Bari Weiss talks about “How to Fight Anti-Semitism.”
Come One, Come All!
At this literary festival, a library card is the only ticket you need.
Can We Trust Economists?
Binyamin Appelbaum’s “The Economists’ Hour” and Janek Wasserman’s “The Marginal Revolutionaries” examine the impact of economic ideas on modern politics.
How Should We Understand Clarence Thomas?
Two new books, Corey Robin’s “The Enigma of Clarence Thomas” and Myron Magnet’s “Clarence Thomas and the Lost Constitution,” offer vastly different interpretations of the Supreme Court’s only black justice.
New in Paperback: ‘The Big Fella’ and ‘Identity’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Revisiting Emma Donoghue’s ‘Room’
In Emma Donoghue’s 2010 novel, 5-year-old Jack is held captive in a small room with his mother. Aimee Bender reviewed it.
Big Sins and Small Atonements: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column
A guilt-ridden female sheriff polices a Southern town while a bad-boy bruiser ventures into Minnesota’s academia. And two sleuths tussle over a London corpse.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Upheaval in the American Workplace
Steven Greenhouse’s “Beaten Down, Worked Up” traces the modern history of American workers and their current condition.
Lupita Nyong’o Had a Guilty Pleasure on the Set of ‘12 Years a Slave’
The Oscar-winning actress, whose new children’s book is “Sulwe,” enjoyed “Fifty Shades of Grey” during filming: “I needed something light and inconsequential to take me out of the harshness of the world.”
All’s Well That Ends Well: Fall Romance Novels
Our columnist Jaime Green looks at new books by Kerrigan Byrne, Jane Ashford, Rachel Spangler and Rebecca Zanetti.
Ben Lerner Is Not Nostalgic for the ’90s
In his third novel, “The Topeka School,” Lerner revisits the precocious poet of his earlier work, this time as a morally confused Midwestern teenager.
What Do Mothers Want? And Will They Know It When They Find It?
In Kate Walbert’s story collection “She Was Like That,” the love of women for their children can provide salvation or a trap. Or both.
‘She Was Like That,’ by Kate Walbert: An Excerpt
An excerpt from ‘She Was Like That,’ by Kate Walbert
Short Stories From Joe Hill, Spiked With Mayhem and Evil
Biker gangs, demented merry-go-rounds, haunted bookmobiles, dead lake monsters: You’ll find them all in “Full Throttle.”
Up Close and Personal: New Essays From Leslie Jamison
In her second collection, “Make It Scream, Make It Burn,” the author of “The Empathy Exams” wages a journalistic battle between sentiment and detachment.
Dead Fathers, Feminist Icons and Other Poetic Obsessions
New poetry collections from Hanif Abdurraqib, Maya Phillips, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Daniel Poppick and Alexandra Teague.
New & Noteworthy, From Prison Writing to Quitting God
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad
“Plagued by Fire,” Paul Hendrickson’s biography of Frank Lloyd Wright, attempts to show the fundamental decency of a man history has portrayed as both a genius and a monster.
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