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.
Letters to the Editor
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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.
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Bookends: What Distinguishes Cultural Exchange from Cultural Appropriation?
Rivka Galchen and Anna Holmes discuss the line between artistic license and cultural theft.
By the Book: Elin Hilderbrand: By the Book
The author of “The Identicals” says that for a literary dinner party, she would invite J.D. Salinger, John Cheever and Flannery O’Connor: “I’m serving very cold Veuve Clicquot and a bowl of mixed nuts.”
The Shortlist: Feminism Takes Form in Essays, Questions and Manifestos
Moira Weigel curates a selection on five books that address child rearing, happiness and ambition with a feminist lens.
Crime: In a New Crime Lineup, a Supine Swede and Private Eyes With Bad Habits
Swedish sausages and Montana wildfires figure in two new crime novels. Also a 19th-century female sleuth and a P.I. who’s addicted to cocaine.
Fiction: Just Another Nutty June Weekend in the Rockaways
In Jill Eisenstadt’s comic novel “Swell,” a Manhattan family seeks safety in the Rockaways after 9/11. Fat chance.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: What Novels Can Help Me Prepare for Motherhood?
A woman anticipating her first child seeks fiction that engages with motherhood — nothing dated, depressing or dystopian, please!
Nonfiction: Al Franken Has Been Sitting on Jokes for a Decade. Now He’s Ready to Tell Them.
“Al Franken, Giant of the Senate” is the story of how Franken pretended to be a serious person in public even as his inner comic monologue never stopped running.
Fiction: Irish Sisters Take Different Paths, but Not the Ones That They Expected
J. Courtney Sullivan’s novel “Saints for All Occasions” covers five decades in the lives of a pair of immigrants and their descendants in America.
Nonfiction: Critical Thinkers: The Ties That Bind Orwell and Churchill
Apparently they never met. But the common cause of George Orwell and Winston Churchill resonates powerfully today, Thomas Ricks writes in this dual biography.
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