‘Hotbox’ Is the ‘Kitchen Confidential’ of the Big-Ticket Catering World
In their new book, the cookbook-writing brothers Matt and Ted Lee describe a high-octane industry that’s all but invisible to customers.
The Woman Behind the Creature From the Black Lagoon
In “The Lady From the Black Lagoon,” Mallory O’Meara introduces us to Milicent Patrick, the Creature’s (uncredited) creator.
Sea of Love: A Father, His Daughter and the Boat He Made for Her
Part memoir, part history, part adventure tale, Jonathan Gornall’s “How to Build a Boat” is a lyrical ode to the pleasures of working with your hands.
Reading Toni Morrison’s 1973 Summer Essay “Cooking Out”
The Book Review’s Summer Reading issue is out this week; 46 years ago, Toni Morrison wrote an essay about cooking out for the 1973 Summer Reading issue.
‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Still Rules the Fiction List. Over on Nonfiction, Though, Things Are in Flux.
Two mainstays of the nonfiction list — memoirs by Michelle Obama and Tara Westover — have moved down a bit, making room for a new No. 1.
Theater of Dreams: A Tale of Boom and Bust at the Plaza Hotel
Reviewing Julie Satow’s “The Plaza,” Tina Brown dishes on the socialites, tycoons and charlatans who made and lost fortunes and reputations at the storied hotel.
‘Dream Sequence’ Is a Novel of Obsessive Celebrity Fandom
Adam Foulds’s new book tracks a mediocre British actor and a troubled Pennsylvania woman who stalks him.
A Debut Novel of Political and Personal Upheaval in Late-20th-Century Nigeria
Nnamdi Ehirim’s “Prince of Monkeys” witnesses a diverse group of friends navigating riots and their own comings-of-age in Lagos in the ’80s and ’90s.
George F. Will: By the Book
The political columnist and author, most recently, of “The Conservative Sensibility” has no love for Holden Caulfield: “Just what the world does not need: another sullen adolescent.”
Two Novels About Rape, Murder and Female Victims
Patrick McGuinness’s “Throw Me to the Wolves” and James Lasdun’s “Afternoon of a Faun” are both meditations on our present-day moral climate.
A Star Is Born? Try Manufactured, a New Book Argues
In “The Drama of Celebrity,” Sharon Marcus focuses on Sarah Bernhardt as a case study in the rise of celebrity culture.
Prep School Confidential
Secrets — and spirits — swirl through Michael Knight’s novel, “At Briarwood School for Girls.”
Wondering at the ‘Special Universe’ of Gay Life in All Its Diversity
In “Out of the Shadows,” Walt Odets looks at the trauma and shame that still plague gay men, and argues for more self-actualized and authentic lives.
Bill Geist Fondly Remembers the Middle America of Old
“Land of the Ozarks” looks back at a time that was less healthy than today, but possibly more fun.
A Thriller Set in Jacobean England Delves Into a Notorious Murder
In “The Poison Bed,” Elizabeth Fremantle reopens the case of Robert and Frances Carr, aristocrats charged with killing a man who opposed their marriage.
A Literary Cocktail of Gun Molls, Rotgut Moonshine and Skittering Shadows
In “Westside,” W.M. Akers’s debut novel, Prohibition-era Manhattan has been divided by a giant wall, and the city has been overrun by jungle and rot.
In the Semi-Fantastical World of ‘The Fox and Dr. Shimamura,’ Nothing Is Certain
In Christine Wunnicke’s new novel, a neurologist suffers from a mysterious fever as he toggles between Eastern and Western cultures.
The Hacking Supergroup That Counts Beto O’Rourke as One of Its Own
Joseph Menn’s “Cult of the Dead Cow” is a narrative history of a group of hackers who went from apolitical hobbyists to security advisers for the world’s most powerful institutions.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Portrait of a Donkey, the Traveling Companion of a Literary Giant
Huguette Martel paints the title character from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes.”
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