Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 5:00am
By Kathryn Hughes
“Here We Are,” by Graham Swift, is a nostalgic look at the world of magicians and song-and-dance acts facing changes in taste and technology.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 - 5:00am
By James Kirchick
In “Divided We Fall,” David French warns that secession movements are a real possibility for the future.
Monday, September 21, 2020 - 7:56am
By Ron Elving
This book may be the master in-depth briefing H.R. McMaster always wanted to give the president. For better or worse, it seems listening to lengthy historical explanations has not been Trump's style.
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Sunday, September 20, 2020 - 8:51am
By Vikki Valentine
Clarke fans waited 16 years for this follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Here, Clarke limns a magic that is part of the very fabric of the universe.
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Sunday, September 20, 2020 - 2:45am
By Jennifer Krauss
From making soup to creating a butterfly garden, everyone can do something.
Sunday, September 20, 2020 - 1:48am
By Vikki Valentine
The latest installment in the Hercule Poirot franchise — now being written by Sophie Hannah — is a masterful, multilayered puzzle in which Poirot's assistant Inspector Catchpool plays a key role.
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Saturday, September 19, 2020 - 7:00am
By Caitlyn Paxson
Lilliam Rivera's new young adult novel reimagines Orpheus and Eurydice as Afro-Latinx teens in New York, bringing something new to the old tale by giving Eurydice her own baggage and her own story.
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Saturday, September 19, 2020 - 1:37am
By Kaitlyn Wells
These four thrillers may be gussied up with future settings, but the problems they confront are rooted in today’s world.
Friday, September 18, 2020 - 2:41pm
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Friday, September 18, 2020 - 2:21pm
Akhtar discusses “Homeland Elegies” and Marc Lacey talks about “Cry Havoc,” by Michael Signer, and “The Violence Inside Us,” by Chris Murphy.