Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 10:00am
By Danny Lore
P. Djèlí Clark's new novella is set in an alternate Jim Crow America where the Ku Klux Klan contains actual pointy-headed white demons, and The Birth Of a Nation is not just a film but an incantation.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 8:57am
By Gabino Iglesias
Brian Selfon spent years working in the criminal justice field, and he brings that knowledge to bear in his debut, about a family of money launderers whose lives are upended when a bag goes missing.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 5:00am
By Tina Jordan
Before you pick up one of these hair-raising, shiver-inducing novels, you’re going to want to close the curtains and check the locks (twice).
Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - 5:00am
By Concepción de León
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, a National Book Award finalist for “The Undocumented Americans,” talks immigration, her unconventional approach to nonfiction and why impostor syndrome doesn’t faze her.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 10:31pm
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 1:50pm
By Joshua Cohen
“The Silence” invites readers to consider whether the connected life has left us more disconnected than ever.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 7:00am
By Michael Schaub
Aoko Matsuda's gently supernatural story collection — all about women who are something more than they seem — gets its unearthly feel not from jump scares, but from the quality of the writing.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 5:00am
By Ayten Tartici
In “Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters,” Rosanna Warren retraces the colorful history of a now largely forgotten figure of French modernism who was surrounded by famous friends.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 5:00am
By Deirdre Mask
In “A Place for Everything,” Judith Flanders, a British social historian, traces the revolutionary history of alphabetical order.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 - 5:00am
By Becca Rothfeld
Brilliant new essay collections from Namwali Serpell, Brian Dillon and Daniel Mendelsohn.