Essay: Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex
Allan Gurganus, Jennifer Weiner and other writers tell Sarah Lyall how they handle a delicate subject, and what happens when it goes wrong.
Essay: Good Paperback Vibrations
What one reader learned about sex from the best-selling novels of his childhood.
The Book Review Podcast: Laura Lippman on ‘Sunburn’
Lippman talks about her new novel, and Tina Jordan discusses new romance novels.
Our Back Pages: 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: Margaret Mead on John McPartland’s history of sex in the U.S.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Inside the List: A Debut Novelist Takes On Islamophobia
Samira Ahmed — whose Y.A. novel, “Love, Hate & Other Filters,” stars a Muslim Indian-American teenager — describes how her own experiences shaped her story.
Time Capsule: Under the Covers
From Ovid and Baudelaire to Nabokov, Roth and E. L. James, some of the most seminal texts in literary history are also among the most erotic. Herewith, a selection of 50 book jackets (arranged in order of original publication) that have become as iconic as the risqué work within.
The Shortlist: Troubled Marriages, Old and New
Four authors explore the various ways that wedded life can go awry.
Fiction: Tempting Fate With a Season of Romance, Sex, Art and Destiny
Madame Nielsen’s “The Endless Summer” — a novel combining nostalgia, reverie and tragedy — is about a family who decides to live it up.
Fiction: A Story of Two Doctors, and a Secret Between Them
In her debut novel, “The Queen of Hearts,” the physician Kimmery Martin writes about lifelong friendship and the deceptions that can tear at it.
Fiction: Fissures Splinter a Family’s Suburban Facade
In this dark, seething debut, 13-year-old Colin struggles to come to terms with his father’s suicide and his own sexuality.
Children’s Books: In Y.A., Where Has All the Good Sex Gone?
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?
Self-Helped: How One Book Changed My Relationship With Money
The nine-step money-management system in “Your Money or Your Life” allowed both its writers to retire early.
Editors’ Choice: 12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Fiction: Strangers in the Night, Exchanging Genre Conventions
Laura Lippman’s new novel, “Sunburn,” draws its inspiration from 1940s noir like “Double Indemnity.”
Nonfiction: Writers Pay Lip Service to a Universal Gesture of Love
In “The Kiss,” Brian Turner collects musings on all aspects of the act, from the romantic to the familial to the tragic.
Essay: Good Paperback Vibrations
What one reader learned about sex from the best-selling novels of his childhood.
Nonfiction: A Recovering Sex and Porn Addict Tells All
Erica Garza’s debut memoir, “Getting Off,” reveals a path to rehabilitation that is equal parts sordid and inspiring.
Nonfiction: A Young Wife Toys With Adultery
In Molly McCloskey’s novel “Straying,” a feckless American marries into an Irish family, then looks for love elsewhere.
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