Friday, May 21, 2021 - 5:00am
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 5:12pm
By Joumana Khatib, John Williams, Noor Qasim and Tina Jordan
You have your sunscreen and beach chairs. Once you pick up any of these 24 books, summer can really begin.
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 3:00pm
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 12:35pm
By Edmund Fawcett
In “The Unbroken Thread,” Sohrab Ahmari sees Western society as having overreached on freedom and lost a sense of rootedness in tradition and community.
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 5:00am
By Ilana Masad
Claire Fuller's beautifully written new novel follows 51-year-old twins who never left home, forced finally to cope with the outside world and some unpleasant family secrets after their mother dies.
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Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 5:00am
By Elisabeth Egan
The co-host of “The View” talks about why she wrote “Summer on the Bluffs” and why Martha’s Vineyard is important to her.
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 5:00am
By Marcel Theroux
In “Phase Six,” by Jim Shepard, pathogens released from excavated permafrost set off a global pandemic.
Thursday, May 20, 2021 - 5:00am
By Rebecca Makkai
A political history of ACT UP New York in the late 1980s and early ’90s is part oral history, part call to arms.
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 1:52pm
By Elisabeth Egan
With our calendars cleared last year, many of us found more time to lose ourselves in books. Let’s hold onto that vibe this year.
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 1:27pm
By John Powers
A writer offers up her guest house to a famous painter in hope that something transcendent will happen. But he's selfish, amoral and flagrantly misogynistic — and monstrously at ease with all this.