"After I set out to write a book about psychedelics, it became obvious what I would have to do,” Michael Pollan says. But how to describe the indescribable?
A backlog at the printing presses, plus a surging demand for popular hardcover titles, has hurt publishers at peak sales season, with popular titles out of stock in some stores.
Here is a collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry that didn’t make the “10 Best” or the “100 Notables,” but our editors still found them worthy of attention.
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.
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.
“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.