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Madame Nielsen’s “The Endless Summer” — a novel combining nostalgia, reverie and tragedy — is about a family who decides to live it up.
In her debut novel, “The Queen of Hearts,” the physician Kimmery Martin writes about lifelong friendship and the deceptions that can tear at it.
In this dark, seething debut, 13-year-old Colin struggles to come to terms with his father’s suicide and his own sexuality.
In the 1970s, books like Judy Blume’s “Forever” showed teenagers that sex was natural and pleasurable. Now it’s more often a danger zone. What happened?
The nine-step money-management system in “Your Money or Your Life” allowed both its writers to retire early.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Laura Lippman’s new novel, “Sunburn,” draws its inspiration from 1940s noir like “Double Indemnity.”
In “The Kiss,” Brian Turner collects musings on all aspects of the act, from the romantic to the familial to the tragic.
What one reader learned about sex from the best-selling novels of his childhood.
Erica Garza’s debut memoir, “Getting Off,” reveals a path to rehabilitation that is equal parts sordid and inspiring.
In Molly McCloskey’s novel “Straying,” a feckless American marries into an Irish family, then looks for love elsewhere.
In Tayari Jones’s new novel, “An American Marriage,” a newlywed black attorney is wrongly convicted of rape.
The novelist Tayari Jones keeps a Bible even though she was raised without religion: “I’ve come to understand that, as a black Southerner, I am a Christian, whether I am observant or not.”
In “Fire Sermon,” the author of the story collection “I Want to Show You More” describes a married woman’s love affair.
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Peggy Orenstein reviews “Buzz” and “Vibrator Nation,” two new books about the history and significance of sex toys.
Verses that will forge bonds between you and your little ones through the power of language.
Elizabeth Flock’s “The Heart Is a Shifting Sea” provides a close-up look at three couples in Mumbai.
Allan Gurganus, Jennifer Weiner and other writers tell Sarah Lyall how they handle a delicate subject, and what happens when it goes wrong.
In “The World Only Spins Forward,” Isaac Butler and Dan Kois tell the story of Tony Kushner’s epic play in the words of the artists who made it and the fans who love it.
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