Fiction: A High-Stakes New York City Thriller Where Noir and Nostalgia Meet
“You Belong to Me,” Colin Harrison’s first thriller in eight years, features a noirish love triangle and an obsessive collector of maps.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: I Need Short but Great Books for My Commute
Wherein the bookish commuter’s lament — “The most I can read is for 30 minutes and that’s typically a train or bus ride” — is solved.
Sherman Alexie and the Tricky Art of Memoir
In a new book inspired by his mother’s death, “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me,” Mr. Alexie plays with the complexities of autobiography.
Nonfiction: How the Dark Web’s Dread Pirate Roberts Went Down
In Nick Bilton’s “American Kingpin,” the former boy scout who started the Silk Road is brought down by federal agents in a dizzying manhunt.
Fiction: In ‘Camino Island,’ John Grisham Takes a Vacation From Writing John Grisham Novels
Stolen F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts, colorful booksellers and a sleepy resort town make for a leisurely, lawyerless John Grisham jaunt.
Newsbook: 3 Books on the Evolution of the Gay Rights Movement
As gay pride month kicks into gear, here are three books on the history of the gay rights movement.
Open Book: The Luckiest Man on Earth
In “The Pride of the Yankees,” Richard Sandomir tells the story behind what he calls “the first great sports film.”
The Book Review Podcast: Al Franken on Life in the Senate
Franken discusses his new political memoir; Thomas E. Ricks talks about “Churchill and Orwell”; and Dav Pilkey on the movie adaptation of “Captain Underpants” and more.
A Return to Middle-Earth, 44 Years After Tolkien’s Death
In “Beren and Luthien,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s son traces the romance between a human and an elf through his father’s notes and drafts and epic poems.
Nonfiction: A Poet’s Loving Take on Her Unorthodox Catholic Family
In her memoir “Priestdaddy,” the poet Patricia Lockwood writes about growing up the daughter of an irrepressible Catholic priest.
Nonfiction: Lenin’s Return From Exile Put Russia on the Fast Track to Revolution
In “Lenin on the Train,” Catherine Merridale explains how Russian chaos in 1917 helped lead to a dictatorship in the name of the proletariat.
Nonfiction: A Counterterrorism Expert Explains How We Got Here and What Lies Ahead
In “Anatomy of Terror,” the former F.B.I. agent Ali Soufan assesses the relentless spread of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
Fiction: Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous
In her first novel since the legendary “God of Small Things,” Roy writes of a group of outcasts who come together during a protest in India.
Fiction: Insects Falling on Books, and Other Tales of Unsettling Trespasses
In “Bad Dreams and Other Stories,” Tessa Hadley flips over the surface of things to disclose the uncanny within all that is commonplace.
Fiction: Elephants Escape Time and Space in These Stories’ Porous Borders
The short stories in Kanishk Tharoor’s debut collection, “Swimmer Among the Stars,” span space and time.
Fiction: A Noir Novel of Motherhood, With a Modern Twist
“Woman No. 17,” Edan Lepucki’s second novel, examines notions of art, identity and motherhood. The men who dominate noir are nowhere to be found.
Fiction: Filial Devotion, Sorely Tested in Minae Mizumura’s Novel
In “Inheritance From Mother,” a middle-aged woman must deal with her aging and demanding mother and her husband’s infidelity.
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Fiction: A Blue-Collar Specialist Takes a Turn at Well-Off Professionals
In a new collection, “Trajectory,” Richard Russo focuses less on his usual down-at-the-heel characters than on members of the upper middle class.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
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