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Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Paul Lynch’s novel “Grace” asks timeless questions about suffering and survival through the story of a sister and brother in the Irish famine.
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Nora Ephron on the advantages of revision.
Mark Lilla responds to Beverly Gage’s review of his new book, “The Once and Future Liberal.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Two books explore the contentious issue, while another demonstrates why such corrective policies may not be enough.
In Emily Culliton’s entertaining debut, “The Misfortune of Marion Palm,” the antiheroine makes off with a bundle of other people’s money.
In “Sargent’s Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas,” Donna M. Lucey depicts the glittering world of the late-19th-century 1 percent.
In “When the English Fall,” debut novelist David Williams asks how one Amish community can weather collapse in the face of global catastrophe.
Was Jack Warner more important than the people who directed his movies? A famous film critic weighs in.
The author of, most recently, “Sing, Unburied, Sing” is a self-described “reading glutton” who reads everything: “Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something.”
Mr. Pratchett, a wildly popular fantasy novelist who died in 2015, had requested that his unfinished work and computers be destroyed.
Concepción de León starts with dozens of books and whittles her list down to three. This is how she does it.
In “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” Erin Carlson argues that Ephron took a Hollywood genre and made it her own.
Electronic sleuthing has identified two additions to the Whitman canon. What do they tell us about the man who sang of himself and of America?
Sylvia Brownrigg’s sequel to “Pages for You” revives a secret lesbian affair between a college freshman and her teaching assistant, 20 years on.
In Bookends, Thomas Mallon and Liesl Schillinger discuss what the best (and worst) criticism does.
In her new book, the critic Ann Powers examines the “erotic pull” of rock ’n’ roll.
In Alissa Nutting’s tragicomic near-future novel “Made for Love,” we’re all in a surveillance state of our own making.
In time for the new academic year, novels set in elite boarding schools contain heartwarming coming-of-age tales and twisted adolescent dramas alike.
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