An Epidemic of Violence We Never Discuss
Rachel Louise Snyder’s “No Visible Bruises” recounts the horror of domestic violence in all its forms and argues for a more systematic approach to this abuse.
A Hunk and a Savant Walk Into a Poetry Class. …
Lucy Ives’s debut novel, “Loudermilk,” satirizes both “bro” culture and the culture of creative writing programs in one fell swoop.
Who Writes American History? And How?
Readers respond to Joseph J. Ellis’s review of Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming.”
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Finding Mercy in the Wake of the Charleston Massacre
An intimate account of the 2015 hate crime and its aftermath, “Grace Will Lead Us Home,” by Jennifer Berry Hawes, explores how those affected struggled to carry on.
New in Paperback: ‘Amity and Prosperity,’ ‘The Great Believers’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
New on the Fiction List This Week: ‘Ask Again, Yes’
Mary Beth Keane was researching a historical novel when “real life kept intervening,” so she wrote a contemporary saga of suburban New York instead.
By the Book: James Ellroy
The Los Angeles crime novelist, whose new book is “This Storm,” is no fan of Cormac McCarthy’s work: “McCarthy fails to employ quotation marks. Neither did William Faulkner, another cat I don’t dig.”
The Making of ‘1984,’ George Orwell’s Nightmare Vision of a World Without Truth
“The Ministry of Truth,” by Dorian Lynskey, is a “biography” of the 1949 novel, an enduring icon of state power devoid of moral principle and human concern.
Ebola, H.I.V., Spanish Flu, SARS — the 20th Century’s Deadliest Hits
In “The Pandemic Century” Mark Honigsbaum covers nine outbreaks that shaped how we think and respond to diseases.
The Soviet Union’s Jewish Tolstoy — Censored in Life, Now Revived
Alexandra Popoff has written a biography of Vasily Grossman, the Soviet writer whose masterpiece, “Life and Fate,” compared Stalin’s regime to Hitler’s.
James Ellroy Is Back, and His Los Angeles Is Darker Than Ever
His new novel, “This Storm,” leads off Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column. To recover, she sends readers to Cara Black’s Paris and Martin Walker’s Périgord.
Expat, Immigrant, Migrant, Refugee: Why ‘This Land Is Our Land’ No Matter the Label
In his new book, Suketu Mehta, who came to the United States from India as a child, delivers a deeply felt corrective to the public rhetoric on immigrants — who they are and why they come.
The Screams of a Silent Movie Echo Through the Years
Dominic Smith’s novel “The Electric Hotel” unveils the tragic history of a film that undid its maker — and his love for its temperamental star.
New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From Jill Biden to Pete Rose
A selection of recent audiobooks of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders
Clay Risen’s “The Crowded Hour” describes the campaign that turned a politician into a legend.
Art, Love and Longing, the French Way
Three eloquent new French novels explore the relationship between creativity and affairs of the heart.
When They Graduated From Rape to Murder, Their Sister Turned Them In
The heroine of Joyce Carol Oates’s novel “My Life as a Rat” is only 12 when she’s cast out after betraying her violent family’s code of silence.
These Two Really Funny Debuts Both Start With a Dead Body
Kristen Arnett’s “Mostly Dead Things” and Nicholas Mancusi’s “A Philosophy of Ruin” both explore grief through humor.
Ocean Vuong Makes His Fiction Debut, in the Form of a Letter
The Vietnamese-born narrator of “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” wrestles with otherness in many forms.
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