In Search of Inspiration (and Accuracy), a Student of Murder Pays a Visit to the Body Farm
When the thriller writer Lisa Gardner needed to research a new book, she toured the facility that has made death into a science.
Why Do Women Love True Crime?
Men are more likely to be involved in violent crime — as perpetrators and victims — but women love to read about it. Kate Tuttle considers the gendered attractions of the genre.
In ‘The Nickel Boys,’ Colson Whitehead Depicts a Real-Life House of Horrors
The reform school at the center of Whitehead’s new novel (his first since “The Underground Railroad”) is more like a prison where the inmates are brutalized and even killed.
What Children Remember From the War
Svetlana Alexievich’s newly translated oral history, “Last Witnesses,” presents the recollections of Russians who experienced World War II as children.
George F. Will on Conservatism’s Homelessness
Will discusses “The Conservative Sensibility,” and David Maraniss talks about “A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father.”
New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Mötley Crüe to Cinderella
A selection of recent audiobooks of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
The Life Cycle of a Beach Read
The cover is clean and brand-new, the pages are crisp — and then your vacation begins. Jessica Olien illustrates the path to the dog-eared and waterlogged.
A 1995 Novel Predicted Trump’s America
William H. Gass’s “The Tunnel” explores eerily resonant themes of midcentury Western fascism.
De Blasio Doesn’t Get It. Not Everyone Who Carries a Gun Is a Shooter.
A model Brooklyn program to keep young people out of jail runs afoul of the mayor and the police.
Behind the Scenes in the Food Biz: Four Culinary Memoirs
It’s hardly glamorous but still enticing, as reported by a young black chef, an obsessive blogger, a prickly female restaurateur and the man who made Noma famous.
New in Paperback: ‘Lake Success,’ ‘Bring the War Home’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
A Novel About Women’s Solidarity That Nods at ‘Magic Marker Terrorists’
In “Whisper Network,” Chandler Baker explores the ways women protect other women in the workplace.
Beware the Writer as Houseguest
Literary history is filled with authors who depended on lengthy visits for room and board, psychological solace and material. But they have not always proved the most gracious guests.
What Counts as a Democracy? And Other Questions. …
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
What Does the Author of ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Think You Should Read?
Delia Owens returns to “Beloved” every now and then: “One sentence from Toni Morrison can inspire a lifetime of writing.”
A Reckoning With the Wars He Has Known
In his memoir, “Places and Names,” the Marine veteran Elliot Ackerman travels to Syria and sees a refracted image of the forever wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Text on the Beach
Beach books are the cool aunts of the literary world: They drive with the top down and take you to new places. They’re memorable, challenging, warm and wise.
If You Could Stop Time, Would You? A Novel Puts a Dark Spin on the Question
During a worldwide economic collapse, the heroes of Andri Snaer Magnason’s “The Casket of Time” seal themselves in time-proof boxes. So does everyone else.
How the Department of Defense Bankrolled Silicon Valley
“The Code,” by Margaret O’Mara, is an ambitious history of the cozy relationship between California’s tech start-ups and the federal government.
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