Otherworldly: Heart-Hammering Science Fiction and Fantasy Thrillers
They may be action-packed page turners — but these books also ask readers to consider very real social issues.
Inside the List: ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ First Published in 2000, Tops the List Again
Demand for Anthony Bourdain’s memoir has soared since his death.
Nonfiction: How Hunting Became a Macho Sport
“The Fair Chase,” Philip Dray’s illuminating history, recounts the evolution of American hunting from frontier vocation to competitive pastime.
Crime: Bears and Poets: Endangered Prey in This Week’s Crime Column
The deep woods and the drawing rooms of London are crime scenes in Marilyn Stasio’s column. Also two villages, one in France and the other in England.
Paperback row: New in Paperback: ‘The Book That Changed America,’ ‘Manhattan Beach’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Visual Verse: Terrance Hayes Spins Poems Into Pictures
The National Book Award-winning poet creates a graphic “verse” in response to the sociopolitical conundrums he tackles in his new book.
The Shortlist: Short Stories That Travel the World From a Deliciously Off-Kilter Perspective
These four masterly collections migrate from a plant nursery in Maine to a Buddhist temple in Japan, pursuing unlikely connections and flashes of enlightenment.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Fiction: Reliably Unreliable Men, Unlikely to Improve Their Lot
Joseph O’Neill’s story collection, “Good Trouble,” features characters unlikely to be on the receiving end of a warmhearted learning experience.
Fiction: Two Writers Haunted by Their Caribbean Past
In his novel “A View of the Empire at Sunset,” Caryl Phillips uses the difficult, lonely life of Jean Rhys to explore themes of alienation and exile.
Fiction: This Novel Opens With a Suicide and a Suitcase of Cash. Then Things Get Really Interesting.
Rebekah Frumkin’s debut, “The Comedown,” is the drugs-and-crime tragedy of two Cleveland clans discovering the fluidity of life and of the self.
Making the Language Strange, as Only Poetry Can Do
In her collection “Yeah No,” Jane Gregory adopts an otherworldly voice like a medium channeling signals from the great elsewhere.
Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: How We Got to Be So Self-Absorbed: The Long Story
In “Selfie,” Will Storr searches for the roots of Western narcissism, a journey that takes him from a Scottish cloister to the Esalen Institute in Big Sur.
By the Book: Samantha Hunt: By the Book
The author Samantha Hunt, whose novel “The Seas” will be reissued in July, has started an apocalypse library: “I enjoy all these books. I just hope I’ll never need them to survive.”
Nonfiction: In One City, 2,000 Years of Gay History
Peter Ackroyd’s “Queer City” is an enticingly dishy and detailed tour of gay life in London, from the Roman era all the way through to the present.
Nonfiction: A Writer Takes On the French Intelligentsia Over Muslims
In “The End of the French Intellectual,” Shlomo Sand argues the case that Muslims have replaced Jews as the country’s most oppressed people.
An Adolescence of Skateboards, Fistfights and Sexual Yearning, Turned Into Pure Poetry
Matthew Dickman’s new collection of poems, “Wonderland,” revisits his teenage years.
Nonfiction: A Biography Charts an Odysseus Sidelined by Mental Illness
In “The Kevin Show,” Mary Pilon chronicles Kevin Hall’s long (and long-foiled) quest for Olympic gold in catamaran sailing.
The Enthusiast: In Praise of Julia Alvarez
“By the time I found ‘How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,’ I’d already resigned myself to using books as windows rather than mirrors.”
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