Have Dog, Will Write
You might be surprised to learn how many authors on the current best-seller lists have had help — well, sort of — from their dogs.
New & Noteworthy Memoirs, From Prison to Boxing to Sexism
A selection of recent memoirs; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
New in Paperback: ‘The Impostor,’ ‘The Waiter’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The Roving, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Peter Orner
His latest collection of stories, “Maggie Brown & Others,” probes the fleeting connections of characters struggling to adjust to the rush of time.
A Lauded Satirist of the Weimar Republic Who Anticipated the Brutality of the Third Reich
Kurt Tucholsky cloaked his despair over the rise of the Nazis in lighthearted satire. Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim explains.
Ralph Nader Begs to Differ, and So Do Two Authors
Letters to the Editor: Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'Star Spangled Scandal': How An 1859 Sensationalized Crime Set A Modern Day Precedent
Author Chris DeRose's examination of "sex, murder and the trial that changed America" shows that glorification of true crime and parstisan rancor is nothing new to American politics.
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Bud Selig: By the Book
The former baseball commissioner, whose new memoir is “For the Good of the Game,” was a voracious childhood reader, “mostly about sports,” and especially “novels about the Brooklyn Dodgers.”
In 'The Ghost Clause,' 2 Marriages, A Missing Child, And Yes, A Ghost
In Howard Norman's new novel, a recently deceased man finds himself haunting his former home and observing the new owners, an academic and a private investigator who's searching for a missing child.
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Secrets and Lies: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column
Everyone’s got something to hide in this latest batch of summer thrillers, particularly the suburban mom at the heart of Denise Mina’s “Conviction.”
To Understand Climate Change, We Need to Understand Greenland
In “The Ice at the End of the World,” Jon Gertner recounts a sprawling history of adventurers and scientists who have tried to unlock the secrets of this vast polar expanse.
A Teenage M.D. Takes On The Adult World In 'Symptoms Of A Heartbreak'
Sona Charaipotra's young adult novel might be familiar to back-in-the-day fans of Doogie Howser — it's about 16-year-old supergenius Saira, fresh out of med school and interning at a hospital.
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'We Went To The Woods' Warns: You Can Know History And Still Repeat It
Caite Dolan-Leach's new novel follows a young woman who gets kicked off a reality TV show and ends up on a 1960s-style commune, where utopian ideals soon fall prey to some very human foibles.
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In Weimar Germany, a Passion for van Gogh Leads to Deception
Clare Clark’s novel “In the Full Light of the Sun” was inspired by a notorious forgery case that ensnared a famous art critic.
'Growing Things' Will Wind Its Tendrils Into Your Mind
Horror writer Paul Tremblay's new short story collection is full of ghosts, monsters, nightmares and apocalypses — all of which feel so close by they might be happening to you, right now.
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In 'The Gifted School,' Ripped-From-The-Headlines Parental Scheming
Bruce Holsinger's new novel — about overprivileged parents cheating to get their kids into a magnet school — is very topical, but the characters are too flat to hook readers' attention for long.
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The Top C.E.O. Candidate Abuses Women. In This Thriller, They Fight Back.
Chandler Baker’s “Whisper Network” is a fierce and funny #MeToo thriller set in the corporate world.
A Novel of Two Marriages, One Haunted by the Other
The narrator of Howard Norman’s “The Ghost Clause” is a recently dead husband, clinging to a house that now belongs to a newlywed couple.
What Wouldn’t a Parent Do to Get a Child Admitted to ‘The Gifted School’?
This new novel by Bruce Holsinger casts a satirical eye on competitive parenting and the privileged, cutthroat world of selective school admissions.
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