Why We Should Abolish the Electoral College
Jesse Wegman’s “Let the People Pick the President” is a readable account of how the Electoral College distorts our political system.
New & Noteworthy Audiobooks, From ‘The Office’ to Eating Well
A selection of recent audiobooks of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Was There a Murder on the Mayflower?
In her new novel, “Beheld,” TaraShea Nesbit uses the death of Dorothy Bradford to look at what life was like for women in the Plymouth Colony.
A History Book That Isn't: Finding A Way To Teach Racism To A New Generation
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi team up to investigate the history of racist ideas through a narrative that's aimed at young adult readers. It's called: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You.
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From the Archives: Michael Lewis and Tana French
Lewis discusses “The Fifth Risk,” and French talks about “The Witch Elm.”
The Beauty Is in the Details
What one artist learned when she sat down to talk with Lynda Barry.
Gothic Horror Fiction, Old and New
In these books, demons infest an elderly tutor, a ghost roams an opera house and a doctor embalms some very strange and horrible things.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
New in Paperback: ‘Women Talking’ and ‘How to Disappear’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
These Are the Faces of Muslim Women Throughout History
From seventh-century Mecca to present-day Europe, Hossein Kamaly’s “A History of Islam in 21 Women” profiles believers who made a difference.
Considering Steven Levy and Artificial Life
In this week’s issue, Natasha Singer reviews “Facebook: The Inside Story,” by Steven Levy. In 1992, William Poundstone wrote for the Book Review about “Artificial Life,” Levy’s book about the science and nuance of life creation in silico.
Lawrence Wright’s New Pandemic Novel Wasn’t Supposed to Be Prophetic
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author reflects on what it’s like to see his fiction become reality.
11 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Flashback to the ’80s
In “We Ride Upon Sticks,” Quan Barry transports readers to the heyday of leg warmers and hair spray.
An Author and An Editor Teamed Up To Write Books Together
Now they have three best-sellers.
Adam Hochschild Says Books Can Change the World. He Has Proof.
The historian treasures his first-edition copy of “The Jungle,” by Upton Sinclair: “This one gave us our pure food and drug laws.”
In 'Recollections Of My Nonexistence,' Rebecca Solnit Once Again Tackles Gender Bias
"[P]erhaps the best thing creative work can do is to compost into the soil so that, unremembered, it becomes the food of a new era, or rather, devoured, digested, the very consciousness of that era."
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'Writers & Lovers' Captures The Cost Of Following A Dream That May Not Pay Off
Lily King's new novel centers on a woman who's spent six years working on her own novel. It's a story of ambition — and what happens when the markers of adult achievement are slow to materialize.
'My Dark Vanessa' Looks Back At The Devastation Of A Predatory Affair
Kate Elizabeth Russell's new novel centers on a woman coming to terms with a relationship she had with a predatory teacher when she was 15. It's overworked and overlong, but still packs a punch.
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Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona
In James Shapiro’s “Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future,” the historical-tragical constantly muscles out the pastoral-comical.
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