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George Smiley returns in this coda to le Carré’s classic, “The Spy Who Came In From the Cold.”
A passage about breasts in “Growing Up for Boys” leads to some awkward conversations for a British publisher.
In ‘Black Detroit,’ Herb Boyd celebrates the city’s rich history through its unsung heroes.
William Taubman’s definitive new biography, “Gorbachev,” describes a leader who was celebrated abroad, reviled at home.
Novels, graphic and otherwise, about the world at war, life with no future and imagined universes.
In “A Disappearance in Damascus,” the journalist Deborah Campbell searches for her guide, an Iraqi refugee.
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s luminous debut novel has the disenchanting optimism of the blues.
For real, true friends, there are sweet spots, rough spots and true connection — beyond clicks and tweets.
Laurie Gelman’s debut novel, “Class Mom,” is told from the comically cynical point of view of a former ’90s wild child turned suburban mother.
Kurt Andersen’s “Fantasyland” argues that alternative facts are baked into the American character.
In her new novel, “Wishtree,” Katherine Applegate channels the natural world to take on prejudice against immigrants.
Alison Moore’s novel “The Lighthouse” follows a lonely British hiker on an increasingly precarious trek through the German countryside.
Joanna Scott’s “Careers for Women,” featuring a Port Authority publicist in midcentury Manhattan, serves up a vice-ridden narrative with white-glove service.
The event, from Oct. 6 to 8, will also include interviews with Preet Bharara, Seth Meyers and Glenn Close.
Suzy Hansen discusses “Notes on a Foreign Country,” and David Thomson talks about “Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio.”
“Y is for Yesterday,” the penultimate installment of Sue Grafton’s Alphabet Series, premieres on the Best-Seller list at No. 1.
This week’s crime novels delve into the Spanish past and into film history, then grapple with two present-day children tormented by dangerous visions.
New novels by Deborah Moggach, Nuala Ellwood, Hallie Ephron and Ruth Ware explore the complex ethics, traumas and loyalties that define women’s lives.
Julian Lucas considers how family stories go beyond genealogy to discover those “who became ‘our’ ancestors” and those who didn’t.
In Nick Joaquin’s “The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic,” women are granted powers that are both uncanny and real.
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