Children’s Books: Facts About the Natural World Astound and Delight in These Picture Books
Dancing bees, ruthless hawks, sensitive whales and an eternal forest in picture books by Evan Turk, Isabelle Arsenault, Brian Floca and more.
Essay: How Does a Novelist Write About a School Shooting?
Richard Russo reflects on readers’ reactions to “Empire Falls,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which was published in 2001, when school shootings were not so common.
Book Territory: This Bookstore Is Stuffed With Just One Thing: Cookbooks
A small storefront in Manhattan houses a very deep knowledge of a very narrow subject: books about food.
The Book Review Podcast: True Crime Starring the Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Margalit Fox talks about “Conan Doyle for the Defense,” and Tina Jordan discusses this season’s thrillers.
New in Paperback: ‘Who Is Rich?,’ ‘The Stars in Our Eyes’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Children’s Books: Y.A. Thrillers to Give You Chills This Summer
Teenagers stranded in the Alaska forest, trapped in a creepy mansion, and stuck aboard the Titanic in novels from Kate Alice Marshall, Marisha Pessl and Sarah Jane.
Crime: Many Sinners, Very Few Saints
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features a “bitter as hell” ex-con, a homicidal professor, a near-mad narrator, and a soldier of fortune turned beach bum.
Fiction: A Thriller Set at a Summer Camp Where Bad Things Happened
Riley Sager’s “The Last Time I Lied” is about a woman who has returned to the summer camp from which her three bunkmates once mysteriously disappeared.
Fiction: A Daughter’s Search for a Father Wanted for Murder
In Flynn Berry’s new thriller, “A Double Life,” a London doctor confronts her family’s troubled, bloody past.
Fiction: He Can’t Remember His Name. Maybe He Doesn’t Want To?
Nick Dybek’s novel “The Verdun Affair” uses the search for a World War I amnesiac’s identity to probe the emotions of those who remember all too well.
Inside the List: Sharks, Torpedoes, Deadly Secrets: The U.S.S. Indianapolis Tragedy
In “Indianapolis,” Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic expose what really happened that day in 1945 when a Japanese submarine torpedoed the Navy cruiser.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Essay: What Do Novels About Evil Children Say About Us?
Horror stories about children guilty of murderous misdeeds are perennially popular. Ruth Franklin considers what the genre tells parents about their own fears.
Editors’ Choice: 7 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The Book Review Podcast: Making a Killing: Top Thriller Writers Talk about Their Craft
In this special bonus episode of the Book Review’s podcast, Lee Child, Megan Abbott, Meg Gardiner, Lisa Gardner and Lisa Scottoline discuss the tricks of their best-selling trade.
Fiction: Nordic Noir, in the Horn of Africa
Robert Karjel’s novel “After the Monsoon” follows the Swedish security police to faraway Djibouti.
By the Book: Karin Slaughter: By the Book
The novelist Karen Slaughter, whose thriller “Pieces of Her” will be published in August, says school contests made her an insatiable reader: “I’m incredibly competitive, so perhaps my early reading passion came from wanting to humiliate my closest reading rivals by volume.”
The Shortlist: Four Thrillers, United by Male Trouble
A selection of novels featuring men on their worst behavior.
Fiction: A Noirish Narrative in Which the Self Is an Enigma, and So Is Everything Else
In Laura van den Berg’s new novel, “The Third Hotel,” an American widow visiting a Cuban film festival thinks she sees her late husband.
Nonfiction: Chris Hayes Reviews Michiko Kakutani’s Book About Our Post-Truth Era
“The Death of Truth” looks at “the age of Trump” — and shudders.
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