Fiction: In ‘Mrs. Fletcher,’ Tom Perrotta Satirizes the Sex Lives of Mothers and Sons
The new novel by the author of “The Leftovers” features a 46-year-old woman hooked on pornography and her college-age son navigating campus gender politics.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Give Me Fictional Family Sagas, the Longer the Better
A reader who loved “A Suitable Boy” and “The Forsyte Saga” seeks more big fat novels with family trees.
Author’s Note: In the Era of Digital Composition, What Should a Writer Keep?
One writing teacher advises, Throw all drafts away! Another says, Save everything. Where’s the line between clutter and artifact?
Books of The Times: Senator Flake, a Republican, Explains Why He Didn’t Vote for Trump
In “Conscience of a Conservative,” Jeff Flake of Arizona crosses a rhetorical Rubicon to excoriate the president — and the lawmakers who support him.
Poetry: Claudia Rankine on the Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
Two new anthologies, “The Golden Shovel Anthology” and “Revise the Psalm,” gather poems and other writings inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks’ work.
Open Book: Where Charlotte and Jane Meet
A new book matches the events of Charlotte Brontë’s life with those of her heroine Jane Eyre.
The Book Review Podcast: ‘Lights On, Rats Out’
Cree LeFavour talks about her new memoir, and Andrew Sean Greer discusses his new novel, “Less.”
Fiction: Tales of the Unhinged: A Poet’s Short-Story Collection
The characters in Olivia Clare’s “Disasters in the First World” are often unstable, possibly even deranged.
Fiction: A Darkly Comic Novel About Turning 30 Without Growing Up
Ruth, the protagonist of Rachel Khong’s ‘Goodbye, Vitamin,’ most definitely does not have it all figured out.
The Shortlist: In Three New Novels, Summer Escapes Prove Illusory
Three novels show that summer escapes, whether to seaside cottages or the great cities of Europe, rarely avoid the turmoil their characters have fled.
Inside the List: Two Poets Walk Into a Bookstore
Collections of poetry are in short supply on the hardcover lists these days. But it wasn’t always thus, as Edna St. Vincent Millay once proved.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Spirals Through Loss, Desire and Longing
In “Pretend We Are Lovely,” Noley Reid’s first novel, a family tries to come to grips with a sudden death.
Fiction: Help Wanted: Only Women Need Apply
In Catherine Lacey’s “The Answers,” a famous actor tries to design the perfect partner piece by piece.
Paperback Row
Six new paperback titles to check out this week.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to the Jane Austen issue and more.
Michiko Kakutani, Times’s Feared and Revered Book Critic, Is Stepping Down
Ms. Kakutani has reviewed books at The New York Times since 1983 and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1998. The paper named Parul Sehgal one of its book critics.
Literary World Reacts to Michiko Kakutani’s Departure
Did Michiko Kakutani — who stepped down after 38 years as The Times’s chief book critic — influence your literary tastes? We’d like to hear about it.
Newsbook: 3 Books That Delve Into What Work Means to Us
The workplace is evolving, as is our relationship to it. These three novels explore how work interacts with our personal lives.
Editors' Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from editors and critics at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: England’s Poet of Melancholy, and Why He Never Went Out of Print
Peter Parker’s “Housman Country” describes a poet who evoked a timeless countryside when England was becoming increasingly urban.
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