Non-Fiction: Affairs to Remember: Nora Ephron’s Classic Rom-Coms
In “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” Erin Carlson argues that Ephron took a Hollywood genre and made it her own.
Nonfiction: Two New Old Books That Show Walt Whitman’s Different Selves
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?
Fiction: Illicit Lovers, Reunited in Adulthood
Sylvia Brownrigg’s sequel to “Pages for You” revives a secret lesbian affair between a college freshman and her teaching assistant, 20 years on.
Bookends: Should Critics Aim to Be Open-Minded or to Pass Judgment?
In Bookends, Thomas Mallon and Liesl Schillinger discuss what the best (and worst) criticism does.
Nonfiction: ‘Good Booty’: The Sexual Power of Music
In her new book, the critic Ann Powers examines the “erotic pull” of rock ’n’ roll.
Fiction: The Real-Life Reality Show That Jumped the Shark
In Alissa Nutting’s tragicomic near-future novel “Made for Love,” we’re all in a surveillance state of our own making.
Match Book: Books for Adults That Channel the Back-to-School Spirit
In time for the new academic year, novels set in elite boarding schools contain heartwarming coming-of-age tales and twisted adolescent dramas alike.
Essay: The Making and the Breaking of the Legend of Robert E. Lee
Historians have long debated Lee’s place in American history, and that battle continues today.
Open Book: Stories and Slurpees
Kristen Arnett will celebrate the publication of her debut short-story collection at her local 7-Eleven.
Profile: A Debut Novelist’s Descent Into Darkness
Gabriel Tallent’s “My Absolute Darling” is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated debut novels of the year.
Nonfiction: A Journalist Abroad Grapples With American Power
In “Notes on a Foreign Country,” Suzy Hansen argues that “Americans were in active denial of their empire even as they laid its foundations.”
Fiction: In This Beautiful Debut, a Boy Takes Flight in a Bleak World
In Jesús Carrasco’s “Out in the Open,” a young boy tries to survive tormentors who are unrelentingly cruel.
Inside the List: A B-Movie Actor Makes It Big on the Best-Seller List
As the star of cult films like “The Evil Dead” and “Army of Darkness,” Bruce Campbell has built a loyal audience.
Children’s Books: Inspirational New Picture-Book Biographies, of Fascinating People — and One Amazing Horse
These five gorgeously illustrated books bring to life the stories of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Arturo Schomburg, an unexpected Purple Heart recipient and more.
Children’s Books: Forget My Bar Mitzvah, What About Getting Nuked?
The 12-year-old bicultural protagonist of “This Is Just a Test” confronts threats, from the specter of a Soviet atomic bomb to his warring grandmothers.
Children’s Books: Just Be Yourself? In Middle School, It’s More Complicated
In Kat Yeh’s refreshing “The Way to Bea,” a 12-year-old learns from harsh experience that self-revelation can lead to trouble.
Open Book: Sharpen Your Pencils
“Vanity Fair’s Schools for Scandal” dishes the dirt on campus cases ranging from the deeply disturbing to the famously shrouded.
The Book Review Podcast: The Joys of Children’s Literature
Bruce Handy talks about “Wild Things,” and Adrian Owen discusses “Into the Gray Zone.”
Children’s Books: ‘A Cocoon Over There’: A Back to School Comic from Liniers
What happens when a new school year also means a new language and country.
Children’s Books: These Tales Get Excited for School Days
A boy who can’t find his stuff, a mom who can’t say goodbye, a teacher who can’t get a rude hippo out of the classroom, and more in new back to school picture books.
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