Sunday, July 14, 2024 - 5:00am
By Lauren Beukes
Alisa Alering’s debut novel, “Smothermoss,” is an Appalachian mystery tangled with wild magic, queer coming-of-age and sisterly bonds.
Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 5:03am
By Jennifer Szalai
A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.
Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 5:01am
By Anderson Tepper
The Ethiopian American novelist also talks aesthetics and the inspiration behind his most recent novel, “Someone Like Us.”
Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 5:00am
By Christopher Bollen
In Stephen Graham Jones’s new novel, a young outcast is forced to become a murderer fated to enact gory revenge.
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 3:21pm
A roundtable of Book Review editors discuss what surprised them, what delighted them, what will send them back to their own shelves.
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 2:44pm
By Clay Risen
She was married to John Belushi until his fatal drug overdose in 1982. She went on to celebrate his comic talent in books and a documentary.
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 11:00am
By Brian Raftery
The novel became the beach read of the summer, with the shark at its center embodying the unease of an era of political and social upheaval.
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 5:02am
By Jennifer Hubert Swan
Sometimes we forget that moving is not just about goodbyes. It’s also about hellos.
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 5:02am
By Kerry Howley
In his picaresque memoir, “My Glorious Defeats,” the Anonymous-movement activist Barrett Brown takes us on a journey of pure, joyous solipsism.
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 5:01am
By Joumana Khatib
The pseudonymous Italian author has become a worldwide phenomenon. But speculation about who she really is has followed her for years.