The Shortlist: A Parade of Francophiles, With Peter Mayle in the Lead
Four new books — from Peter Mayle, Eric Hazan, Mark Greenside and the team of Stéphane Hénaut and Jeni Mitchell — explore the riches of Gallic culture.
Fiction: ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’: A Literary Tale of Love and Obsession
In Ceridwen Dovey’s new novel, a wealthy benefactor and his much younger protégée resume contact after a 17-year break.
Nonfiction: Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat
In “Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods,” the usually scathing critic William Logan unearths the historical context behind some beloved poems.
Fiction: ‘The Garden Party’ Is a Tale of Mismatched Families, a Wedding and Lots of Wine
When the Barlows — eccentric academics — and the lawyerly Cohens meet at their children’s rehearsal dinner in Grace Dane Mazur’s novel, polite chatter soon skids off the rails.
Fiction: Are Ben Marcus’s Dark and Disturbing New Stories the Literary Answer to ‘Black Mirror’?
“Notes From the Fog” features the author’s trademark humor and a vision of society both devastatingly bleak and seemingly plausible.
Inside the List: He Wrote a Memoir About Infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. Then Spike Lee Turned It Into a Film.
Ron Stallworth joined the Klan as a black detective working undercover in 1978. Now his memoir, “Black Klansman,” is a best seller — and an acclaimed film.
New in Paperback: ‘Unbelievable,’ ‘Improvement’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Children’s Books: Picture Books Tell Children the Harsh Stories of Migrants and Refugees
The dark, dangerous realities are not glossed over, but they’re presented with a gentle touch by these storytellers and artists.
Fiction: Mom and Dad Were Spies: Two New Novels Unravel Complicated Legacies, One Secret Mission at a Time
In both Lea Carpenter’s “Red, White, Blue” and Dan Fesperman’s “Safe Houses,” a daughter learns more about the death of a parent who worked for the C.I.A.
#6: The Fall of Gondolin
The Fall of Gondolin
J.R.R. Tolkien (Author), Christopher Tolkien (Editor), Alan Lee (Illustrator)
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J.R.R. Tolkien (Author), Christopher Tolkien (Editor), Alan Lee (Illustrator)
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#10: Martha Stewart's Pressure Cooker: 100+ Fabulous New Recipes for the Pressure Cooker, Multicooker, and Instant Pot
Martha Stewart's Pressure Cooker: 100+ Fabulous New Recipes for the Pressure Cooker, Multicooker, and Instant Pot
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Editors’ Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
By the Book: By the Book: Ben Macintyre
The author, most recently, of ‘The Spy and the Traitor’ is moved by ‘discretion and modesty’ in literature: ‘As a very British sort of Briton, I have an affection for the stiff upper lip, the emotion unvoiced, the desire undeclared.’
Fiction: 30 Years After Her Acclaimed Debut, a Zimbabwean Novelist Returns to Her Heroine in a Sequel
In “This Mournable Body,” Tsitsi Dangarembga revisits the indomitable protagonist of “Nervous Conditions,” her prizewinning first novel, and find her still struggling but unbowed.
Nonfiction: Coming of Age — and Becoming a Writer — in an America Obsessed With ‘Dead Girls’
“Dead Girls,” by Alice Bolin, and “Against Memoir,” by Michelle Tea, reflect on American culture’s often violent fixation on female bodies.
Memorabilia: Happy 20th Anniversary, Harry Potter
A publishing saga, captured in Potter ephemera — letters, sketches, mementos and more — that has been transfigured into treasure.
#8: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas (Author)
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'The Shadow President' A Missed Opportunity To Better Understand Mike Pence
The Shadow President looks like a book, but belongs firmly in the world of partisan TV. There is plenty to uncover about the "real" Mike Pence, but readers won't find it here.
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Understated And Over-Frank, 'French Exit' Is Just The Right Amount Of Funny
Patrick DeWitt's new novel is a sparkling dark comedy about an Upper East Side society matron and her large adult son (and their cat) who take off for Paris to escape financial and social ruin.
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