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David Szalay’s debut, “London and the South-East,” published in Britain nearly a decade ago, takes a resonant look at a salesman’s darkly comic life.
Yan Lianke’s pair of novellas, “The Years, Months, Days,” paints a darkly satirical portrait of stranded characters adrift in a depraved society.
Hanif Kureishi’s narrator in “The Nothing” may be old and infirm, but he can still experience lust and jealousy. And how.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Allan Nevins on Henry Hazlitt.
Even his friends were surprised by the range of the legendary former Random House publisher Howard Kaminsky’s books, from highbrow novels to “The Art of the Deal.”
Quarreling animals, a kingdom of segregated factions, and a gifted outsider who’s cruelly shunned in “The Lost Rainforest: Mez’s Magic,” “The Unicorn Quest” and “The Book of Boy.”
Edward Abbey’s 1968 memoir highlights what America lost when the president removed federal protection of Utah’s canyon country.
Three memoirs take varying approaches to capturing how a mental disorder can upend a person’s life.
Victoria Sweet’s memoir, “Slow Medicine,” suggests that a more methodical approach to medical care would benefit everyone involved.
Pierce Brown says he grapples with class hierarchies in his “Red Rising” series thanks to a fascination with 19th-century history.
Catherine Kerrison’s book tells the story of the third president’s daughters, including Harriet Hemings, who was born a slave.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Again and again, when I meet people who don’t know the book, I find myself being a “Mrs. Bridge” evangelist, telling them that it’s a perfect novel.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
The postmodern fiction writer Robert Coover (who once had ambitions to be a graphic novelist) saves his real reading and writing for after midnight.
In a posthumous collection, “The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,” Johnson continues the preoccupation that haunted his career.
A poem by the Nebula Award-winning fantasy writer Naomi Novik, in remembrance of Ursula K. Le Guin.
David Frum argues in “Trumpocracy” that the president is a menace to the Republic.
David N. Schwartz’s “The Last Man Who Knew Everything” recounts the life of the great physicist Enrico Fermi.
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