New in Paperback: ‘Small Fry,’ ‘The Hellfire Club’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
A Man of Faith Wonders at How Evangelicals Can Support Trump
In “The Death of Politics,” Peter Wehner explores what politics has done to Christian witness and despairs about the allegiances of the Trump era.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Bully or the Bullied? Kathleen Hale Is Both
In “Kathleen Hale Is a Crazy Stalker,” the essayist casts herself as equal parts victim of online cancel culture, and predator.
Sarah Dessen’s ‘The Rest of the Story’ Lands at No. 2
“I’ve had a lot of young women tell me my books were a friend in high school when they didn’t have many,” Dessen says. “Man, I know that feeling.”
By the Book: Elliot Ackerman
The novelist and journalist, whose most recent book is the memoir “Places and Names,” thinks Vronsky gets a bad rap in “Anna Karenina”: “I believe that he loved Anna, in his strange broken way.”
‘Patsy’ Upends the Stereotypes of Immigrant and Gay Fiction
Nicole Dennis-Benn’s second novel “Patsy” follows a Jamaican woman as she begins a new life in Brooklyn, leaving her child behind.
California and Water: Half Environmental Nightmare, Half Remarkable Success Story
In “The Dreamt Land,” Mark Arax chronicles California’s attempt to control its greatest natural resource, often to detrimental effect.
A Time-Twisting, Mind-Bending Novel, Perfect for Summer Reading
Blake Crouch’s alternate-reality thriller, “Recursion,” explores identity, memory and the very things that make us human.
Marriage Is a Mess in ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’
With her debut novel, Taffy Brodesser-Akner updates the midlife malaise story, starring a left-behind husband who suddenly becomes a single parent.
He Hears America Singing Guns N’ Roses
In “Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems,” Campbell McGrath celebrates chain restaurants, rock music and the joyful raucous stupidity of pop culture.
What Happened When Juror C-2 Met Juror F-17 at the Murder Trial
“The Body in Question,” a mordantly intelligent novel by Jill Ciment, features a sensational crime, a sequestered jury and a torrid love affair.
What Happened When Juror C-2 Met Juror F-17 at the Murder Trial
“The Body in Question,” a mordantly intelligent novel by Jill Ciment, features a sensational crime, a sequestered jury and a torrid love affair.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
A Dutch Novelist Pokes Holes in His Country’s Pretensions
Herman Koch’s “The Ditch” uses an insecure mayor’s doubts about his marriage to probe larger cultural uncertainties in the “civilized” Netherlands.
A Border Novel That Captures Immigrants in All Their Humanity
Oscar Cásares’s “Where We Come From” avoids easy stereotypes to offer a story about an immigrant teenager trying to reunite with his father.
Neville Chamberlain: A Failed Leader in a Time of Crisis
Tim Bouverie’s “Appeasement” describes the many ways the British government avoided standing up to Hitler.
The ‘It Books’ of Summers Past
We’ve revisited the books that defined the season over the past 50 years — and what they reveal about the country at a particular moment.
Rethinking the Epidemic of Domestic Violence
Rachel Louise Snyder talks about “No Visible Bruises,” and Josh Levin discusses “The Queen.”
Finding the Funny in Kafka
The graphic novelist Peter Kuper offers a comic about his love of Kafka’s more humorous side.
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