Sketchbook | : The 12 Best Book Covers of 2018
We think you can judge a year by its book covers.
Inside the List: Doughnut Shops, Dive Bars and Diners
Those places frequented by some of your favorite literary characters? They might be real.
The Shortlist: Three New Chilling Page-Turners Feature Unlikely Psychopaths
A middle-aged businessman, an old lady with a walker, a domestic violence victim: The protagonists of these thrillers aren’t what they seem.
Fiction: A Family Splinters in ‘All the Lives We Never Lived’
In Anuradha Roy’s melancholy new novel, an older man, poring through a cache of letters, grapples with the decades-old mystery of his mother’s disappearance.
Fiction: A Dystopian Thriller From Joyce Carol Oates
After many blood-filled novels, Oates has written a book, “Hazards of Time Travel,” in which the victim is America.
Nonfiction: The Not-So-Dumb Objects That Smartphones Have Led Us to Ignore
Two new books, David Edwards’s “Creating Things That Matter” and Glenn Adamson’s “Fewer, Better Things,” argue for a return to the material world.
New in Paperback: ‘Ramp Hollow,’ ‘Freshwater’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Crime: Marilyn Stasio Plays Bad Santa in This Holiday Crime Column
Her picks from the year’s mysteries — for the most original murder method, the toughest puzzle, the creepiest setting, even the loudest bang for the buck.
Children’s Books: Novels That Freshen Up Some Well-Worn Classics
“Pride and Prejudice” and “Beowulf” get a new, modern look, and three fairy tales about female beauty get mashed up into a tale of two magical sisters.
Nonfiction: Ingrid Sischy’s Genius: Portraits of Contemporary Culture
“Nothing Is Lost: Selected Essays” offers a sampling of the famed editor and critic’s cutting-edge reports on the art and artifice of American life.
Profile: Celeste Ng Is More Than a Novelist
Her knack for domestic engineering in her stories have found commercial success. Now she’s using that power to give other writers a boost.
Nonfiction: A New Biography of the Architect Philip Johnson, the ‘Man in the Glass House’
Mark Lamster’s book recounts the long and productive life of an architect who had an outsize influence on the art form throughout the 20th century.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
By the Book: Ian Rankin: By the Book
The crime writer, whose new Rebus novel is “In a House of Lies,” is giving his archives to the National Library of Scotland: “There might be material there for some future Ph.D. researcher … long after I’m dead.”
Nonfiction: Julián Castro’s American Story
In a new memoir, “An Unlikely Journey,” the potential presidential candidate traces his family’s history, from his grandmother’s emigration to the United States to his rise in politics.
Nonfiction: A Predatory Congressman, His Jilted Lover and a Gilded Age Lawsuit That Foreshadowed #MeToo
“Bringing Down the Colonel,” by Patricia Miller, casts timely light on a forgotten 19th-century saga in which a powerful man was held accountable for his exploitative treatment of a young woman.
Fiction: A Silicon Valley Start-Up Offers Hints of Alternate Lives
In Helen Schulman’s latest novel, “Come With Me,” a California family’s bonds are frayed by infidelities both virtual and actual.
Nonfiction: Chasing Down a Decades-Old Family Tragedy
In “The Day That Went Missing,” Richard Beard, gutted by memories and grief, investigates his brother’s death on a Cornwall beach in 1978.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: Explaining Trump, Brexit and Other Expressions of Nationalism
John B. Judis’s “The Nationalist Revival” explores the worries and resentments of those who feel left behind.
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