Essay: The Iceman Cometh Out
One of Marvel’s X-Men, Iceman, has finally accepted that he is gay in a comic book series that is breaking new ground for the genre.
The Book Review Podcast: Lisa Halliday on ‘Asymmetry’
Halliday discusses her debut novel, and Naomi Novik and Gerald Jonas remember the life and work of Ursula K. Le Guin.
Fiction: Two Novels Trace Parallels Between Past and Present, or Create Them
“The Maze at Windermere,” by Gregory Blake Smith, imagines Newport, R.I., from the 17th century to today. “Peculiar Ground,” by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, does the same for a British estate.
Inside the List: After Setting Her Hair on Fire, Lisa Gardner Decided to Become a Writer
It was the 1980s, she was waitressing, “and there was a lot of Aqua Net involved. I took the hint. No more food service. Lots more time at the keyboard.”
Fiction: What Would It Be Like to Be 400 Years Old?
In Matt Haig’s new novel, “How to Stop Time,” the narrator — born in 1581, and still alive today — seems to be having a midlife crisis.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Children’s Books: One Part Fantasy, One Part Reality Is a Child’s Perfect Formula
In the Dory Fantasmagory books, Abby Hanlon finds the humor — and the coping strategies — in a young heroine’s shifting line between imagination and reality.
Children’s Books: Great New Books for a Child Just Learning to Read
Clever, beautifully illustrated new books from Brian Selznick, Sara Varon and Bryan Collier that are easy to read — and to love.
Ivory Tower: Science’s Inference Problem: When Data Doesn’t Mean What We Think It Does
Three new books on the challenge of drawing confident conclusions from an uncertain world.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Nonfiction: Arrested at 12, She’s Now an Activist Fighting for Social Justice
Patrisse Khan-Cullors’s memoir, “When They Call You a Terrorist,” recounts the life of a Black Lives Matter co-founder.
Editors’ Choice: 11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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: Francine Prose on Ursula K. Le Guin.
Fiction: Was It the Perfect Crime or a Paranoid Fantasy?
Junichiro Tanizaki’s early novel “In Black and White” uses nested murder plots to explore the guilt and responsibilities of the writing life.
By the Book: Kristin Hannah: By the Book
The novelist Kristin Hannah would like to discuss women’s history with Margaret Atwood, Hillary Clinton and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “Let’s face it, the Notorious R.B.G. is just plain cool.”
The Shortlist: 3 Books to Help You Understand Millennials and Beyond
Whether it’s the modern labor market, a selfie obsession or loneliness brought on by cellphone addiction, here’s what’s wrong with young people.
Nonfiction: How We Got From Twinkies to Tofu
In “Hippie Food,” Jonathan Kauffman tracks the emergence of the organic, politicized diet so many Americans love today.
The Enthusiast: In Praise of Alistair MacLean and the Male Romance
“Years later, I understood that these were in fact romance novels for boys, which means very little romance and lots of danger and battle-forged camaraderie.”
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Authors I Can Binge-Read
Seeking authors with a spate of books I can consume one after another without coming up for air.
Crime: Fans of Easy Rawlins and Leonid McGill, Meet Joe King Oliver
Walter Mosley leads off the Crime column, followed by a first novel set in rural Cornwall and series prequels from Charles Finch and Trudy Nan Boyce.
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