Essay: What Isaac Asimov Taught Us About Predicting the Future
Alec Nevala-Lee considers the science fiction writer’s concept of “psychohistory,” a fictional method for predicting the future dreamed up during turbulent times.
Nonfiction: Where Trolls Reigned Free: A New History of Reddit
“We Are the Nerds,” by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, tells the story of the popular internet platform whose unfettered embrace of free expression has proved controversial.
Nonfiction: The Founders Look at Modern America
Joseph J. Ellis’s “American Dialogue” views the present through the past.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Match Book: Works of Fiction that are Best Read Together
Two books are better than one in these perfect pairings of stories across genres and generations.
Front Burner: The Dish on Fishs Eddy
A new graphic novel tells the story of the dishware store.
Nonfiction: From Top Law School Grad to Notorious R.B.G.: The Evolution of a Supreme Court Justice
“Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” by Jane Sherron De Hart, is the first full-length biography of the court’s second woman justice.
Nonfiction: Jill Soloway Goes Completely Transparent in a New Memoir
“She Wants It” details the creation of an award-winning television show amid the writer’s own process of self-discovery.
The Book Review Podcast: Lisa Brennan-Jobs on ‘Small Fry’
“I was desperately, desperately trying not to write a memoir,” Brennan-Jobs says. “But these stories kept on coming up for me, and they were more vivid and they were more pressing than other stories.”
Sketchbook: Just in Time for Halloween, a Graphic Homage to a Classic Work of Gothic Horror Literature
Sergio García Sánchez illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
Inside the List: Susan Orlean Burned a Book. It Was ‘Excruciating.’
While researching “The Library Book,” about the 1986 fire that decimated the Los Angeles Central Library, the author took a paperback and some matches into the yard.
New in Paperback: ‘To Siri With Love,’ ‘The Relive Box’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
ROUNDUP: Hunting Down the Best True-Crime Tales
Marilyn Stasio discovers books that document the history of serial killing and the poisons of past and present, as well as some scandalous murder cases.
Fiction: From Stephen King, Master of Darkness, a Light New Tale
King’s slim new novel, “Elevation,” returns us to Castle Rock, where prejudice drives a plot that blends the fantastical with the mundane.
The Shortlist: The Season’s Standout Crossover Y.A. Novels
Markus Zusak’s long-awaited “Bridge of Clay,” along with a French best seller, a story based on the ordeal of the Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, and more.
ROUNDUP: Misfits, Stalkers and Kiddie Sociopaths: The Latest Thrillers
On the 30th anniversary of “The Silence of the Lambs,” Mark Harris assesses the state of the psychological thriller — and weighs in on five new ones.
Fiction: Black Death and the Black Arts: A Deadly Fictional Duo
Set in 17th-century France, Chris Womersley’s novel “City of Crows” features a mother who succumbs to witchcraft and a grifter with a gift for the tarot.
Roundup: A Dark Cavalcade of New Horror Fiction
In these novels, a phantom walks the earth, families at a campground descend into a terrifying alternative universe and the Devil roams a bleak English landscape.
Children’s Books: Graphic Novels to Give Kids Chills and Thrills
In "Fake Blood,” a sixth grader morphs into a vampire. “Scarlett Hart: Monster Hunter” has a retro-modern teenage heroine who slays all kinds of evil creatures.
From Our Archives: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House.”
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