The authors Amy Kaufman and Suzannah Showler dive deep into the art and artifice of the prime time love factory that’s swept the nation.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Detective stories from around the world.
Our critics chose 15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.
In “We the Corporations,” Adam Winkler recounts the history of American companies’ efforts to shape the law to their advantage.
Whether they’re lovers, parents, professors or kids, the characters in these stories all have something to hide.
Matt Young discusses “Eat the Apple,” and A. O. Scott talks about Martin Amis’s “The Rub of Time.”
A graphic pep talk for the literary year ahead.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
In “Educated,” Tara Westover recounts her remarkable journey from a remote mountainside in Idaho to Cambridge University.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Joseph Wood Krutch and the future’s inevitability.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Four memoirs by doctors who explore the line that divides their identities as healers from that of fellow human beings.
John Leland’s book “Happiness Is a Choice You Make” chronicles the unlikely virtues of aging.
In books by Dhonielle Clayton, Tomi Adeyemi and others, teenagers from around the globe are inventive, romantic and above all empowered.
Hermione Hoby’s first novel, “Neon in Daylight,” offers a fresh take on the romance of urban life.
In “It’s Better Than It Looks,” Gregg Easterbrook argues the case for optimism in a time of troubles.
Crime novels by Jane Harper, Robin Oliveira, Christobel Kent and Steve Cavanagh probe the fate of women and girls: some just gone, some gone for good.
In “Enlightenment Now,” the Harvard professor offers much evidence that the world, our feelings notwithstanding, is definitely getting better.
“The Invention of Ana,” a novel by Mikkel Rosengaard, hinges on an ambiguous mentorship and the history of the Romanian revolution.
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