![]() | Review: ?Biography of X,? by Catherine Lacey |
Catherine Lacey?s new novel follows a polarizing artist through a fractured country. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Meganets,? by David B. Auerbach |
Who?s really in charge of our online behavior? No one, David Auerbach argues in ?Meganets.? | |
![]() | Book Review: ?The Nursery,? by Szilvia Molnar |
In her debut novel, ?The Nursery,? Szilvia Molnar paints an honest, frightening and claustrophobic picture of new motherhood. | |
![]() | Four Thrilling New Romance Novels |
New romance novels brim with shining, seductive, beautifully crafted sentences. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?The People?s Hospital,? by Ricardo Nuila |
In ?The People?s Hospital,? Ricardo Nuila explores the ways in which a space for those stranded by the American health care system serves as an unlikely model. | |
![]() | 22 Works of Fiction to Read This Spring |
Watch for reality-bending explorations of time and space, a Western horror novel from Victor LaValle and new fiction from Han Kang. Plus: Tom Hanks (yes, that Tom Hanks) releases his debut novel. | |
![]() | What We?re Reading |
Gilbert Cruz talks to Book Review staff members about the books they?ve been enjoying lately. | |
![]() | Trang Thanh Tran Has a Song for That |
From Pomplamoose to MXMS to Taylor Swift, this best-selling author?s playlist is tailored to all the moods in ?She Is a Haunting.? | |
![]() | 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring |
New memoirs, a landmark biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., a look at the woman who helped halt the rise of a K.K.K. leader ? and more. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Wandering Souls,? by Cecile Pin |
In Cecile Pin?s debut novel, ?Wandering Souls,? the tale of three young Vietnamese migrants transforms into a larger meditation about how and why refugee stories are told. | |
![]() | The Many Lives of Jeannette Walls |
The writer of ?The Glass Castle? starts a new chapter with a rip-roaring novel set during Prohibition. | |
![]() | She Never Existed. Catherine Lacey Wrote Her Biography Anyway. |
In her new novel, ?Biography of X,? Lacey dreams up a larger-than-life, narcissistic artist, and rewrites American history to tell her story. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Commitment,? by Mona Simpson |
In Mona Simpson?s new novel, ?Commitment,? a precariously functioning family fractures under the pressure of mental illness. Or does it? | |
![]() | In Rehearsal One Minute, Laid Off the Next: The Fate of Broadway?s ?Room? |
Actors were two weeks into rehearsals when the show, which was set to star the Tony-winning actress Adrienne Warren, was postponed indefinitely. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Little Rosetta and the Talking Guitar,? by Charnelle Pinkney Barlow, and ?Rock, Rosetta, Rock! Roll, Rosetta, Roll!,? written by Tonya Bolden and illustrated by R. Gregory Christie |
Before her, guitarists played the blues, and mostly sat down doing it. Sister Rosetta Tharpe stepped out. | |
![]() | What Happens on Page 76 in This Season?s New Books? |
The artist Didier William envisions new releases by Victor LaValle, Mona Simpson and more. | |
![]() | Jailed in Egypt at 17, He Wrote to Survive and to Share His Long Ordeal |
Sentenced as a teenager to 15 years for ?unlawful assembly,? Abdelrahman ElGendy started recording the abuses of prison life. The idea of someday publishing his memoir gave him a reason to live. | |
![]() | 9 New Books We Recommend This Week |
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. | |
![]() | Broadway?s ?Room,? Starring Adrienne Warren, Postpones Run Indefinitely |
The show, scheduled to open in April at the James Earl Jones Theater, was adapted from Emma Donoghue?s best-selling 2010 novel. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Still Life With Bones,? by Alexa Hagerty |
In ?Still Life With Bones,? Alexa Hagerty recounts her training in the science of forensic exhumation at mass grave sites in Guatemala and Argentina ? and what such work means for the families of victims. | |
![]() | Mona Simpson?s Fiancé Promised to Read ?Middlemarch.? He Never Did. Now He?s Her Ex. |
?Certain men are constitutionally incapable of reading one of the greatest novels ever written,? says the author, whose new novel is ?Commitment.? | |
![]() | Poem: [All things now remind me] |
This poem is a heartbreaker for all who know or will know soon enough what it is like to once have been ?young and desirous? and to be those things no more. | |
![]() | New Crime Books From Joyce Carol Oates, Harini Nagendra and More |
In Joyce Carol Oates?s ?48 Clues Into the Disappearance of My Sister,? a troubled, resentful younger sibling describes the long-ago events. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Birchers,? by Matthew Dallek |
A new account of the John Birch Society by Matthew Dallek charts its history ? and outsize influence on the contemporary Republican Party. | |
![]() | Read Your Way Through Miami |
To love Miami is to accept that it is a city in flux. Jonathan Escoffery, one of its writers, recommends books that help shape the Florida metropolis. | |
![]() | Newly Published, From a Mozambican Emperor to Nazi Face Transplants |
A selection of recently published books. | |
![]() | Who Was Leonardo?s Mother? A Novelist Has Evidence She Was Enslaved. |
An author has a theory that the artist?s mother, Caterina, was kidnapped as a girl in the Caucasus area of Central Asia. | |
![]() | Amy Schwartz, Who Captured Life as Viewed by a Child, Dies at 68 |
The dozens of books for young readers that she wrote and illustrated had a knack for finding ?the wondrous in the mundane.? | |
![]() | John Jakes, Who Hit the Jackpot With Historical Novels, Dies at 90 |
His sagas of the Revolution and the Civil War sold tens of millions of copies, were adapted for TV and put him in the pantheon of big-name authors. | |
![]() | Ann Napolitano?s New Novel, ?Hello Beautiful,? Is the 100th Pick of Oprah?s Book Club |
Ann Napolitano toiled in obscurity for years. Novels went unpublished; agents turned her down. She found recognition with ?Dear Edward.? Then came the call: ?Hello Beautiful? was the 100th pick for what is arguably the most influential book club in the world. | |
![]() | In the Search for Latin America?s Disappeared, Memories and Evidence Entwine |
In ?Still Life With Bones,? the anthropologist Alexa Hagerty describes how she learned to see the dead with a forensic eye ? and to listen to the living. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?How to Think Like a Woman,? by Regan Penaluna |
In ?How to Think Like a Woman,? Regan Penaluna, a scholar who left the field, takes it to task for its historical misogyny and persistent sexism. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Truth and Repair,? by Judith Herman |
In ?Truth and Repair,? her follow-up to 1992?s ?Trauma and Recovery,? the psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that healing is more than a ?private, individual matter.? | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Y/N,? by Esther Yi |
In Esther Yi?s weird and wondrous ?Y/N,? a bored young woman in thrall to a boy band buys a one-way ticket to Seoul. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?The Lost Americans,? by Christopher Bollen |
In Christopher Bollen?s novel ?The Lost Americans,? a New Yorker seeks answers about her brother?s sudden death abroad. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery? |
In ?The Real Work,? the longtime New Yorker staff writer dissects the process of mastering new skills by acquiring some himself. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Walking Practice,? by Dolki Min |
In Dolki Min?s debut novel, ?Walking Practice,? an extraterrestrial who crash-lands on Earth shows what it means to feel out of place in one?s body and its surroundings. | |
![]() | Book Review: ?Heart Sutra,? by Yan Lianke |
?Heart Sutra? focuses on faith under state control. | |
![]() | Why Would Someone Steal Unpublished Manuscripts? |
Filippo Bernardini has been accused by the government of stealing over 1,000 book manuscripts. In court filings, he said he was motivated not by money but by a love of reading. | |
![]() | Review: ?The Dog of the North,? by Elizabeth McKenzie |
In ?The Dog of the North,? Elizabeth McKenzie maps the zany travels of an injury-prone clan with a hole at its center. | |
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