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Adam Foulds’s new book tracks a mediocre British actor and a troubled Pennsylvania woman who stalks him.
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.
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.”
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.
In “The Drama of Celebrity,” Sharon Marcus focuses on Sarah Bernhardt as a case study in the rise of celebrity culture.
Secrets — and spirits — swirl through Michael Knight’s novel, “At Briarwood School for Girls.”
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.
“Land of the Ozarks” looks back at a time that was less healthy than today, but possibly more fun.
In “The Poison Bed,” Elizabeth Fremantle reopens the case of Robert and Frances Carr, aristocrats charged with killing a man who opposed their marriage.
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 Christine Wunnicke’s new novel, a neurologist suffers from a mysterious fever as he toggles between Eastern and Western cultures.
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.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Huguette Martel paints the title character from Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes.”
Randy Boyagoda’s satirical novel “Original Prin” is an antic account of one man’s journey from a college in Toronto to the war-torn Middle East.
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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Let this spate of science fiction transport you to another era.
In these Y.A. novels, teenagers search for answers to the mysteries of love and the puzzle of themselves.
Ibram X. Kendi on books to help America transcend its racist heritage.
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