From Our Archives: Revisiting Diana Athill: ‘The Doyenne of English Book Editors’
In her memoir “Stet,” the editor behind writers such as V.S. Naipaul and Jean Rhys reflected on her life in publishing.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Fiction: Two Young Men Come of Age Amid Violence and Pathos Overseas
These novels, about an aspiring scholar in Italy and a young poet returning to his roots in Afghanistan, chart unsettled paths to adulthood.
In 'Saturn's Return,' Astrology Is A Framework, But Not A Fix
Sara Gran's first novel, now reissued, takes an astrological concept as the jumping-off point for a messy, prickly, realistic depiction of a difficult year in a young woman's life.
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By the Book: Isaac Mizrahi: By the Book
The fashion designer and author of the new memoir “I.M.” likes his literature “sort of plain”: “Style is suspicious to me in general. I think that’s true about my taste in everything. Food. Décor. Clothes.”
Fiction: In This Updated Myth, Female Intuition Goes Nuclear
Sharma Shields’s new novel, “The Cassandra,” brings an archetypal Greek seer into the age of modern warfare.
Fiction: A Novelist Dares to Imagine Tennessee Williams in Love and at Work
In “Leading Men,” Christopher Castellani takes Tennessee Williams and his lover, Frank Merlo, back to an invented interlude in Portofino.
On Poetry: What Charles Bukowski’s Glamorous Displays of Alcoholism Left Out
A new collection of the writer’s prose and poems, “On Drinking,” makes clear how evasive he was even in his most seemingly honest work. Can Bukowski’s view of addiction survive a new era?
Fiction: In a Gutsy New Thriller, a Black Female Spy’s Past Comes Back to Haunt Her
“American Spy,” Lauren Wilkinson’s assured debut novel, explores the career and moral quandaries of a black woman who’s undervalued in the boy’s club of the F.B.I.
Stories Converge In A Flooded 'Bangkok'
Pitchaya Sudbanthad's novel follows a broad cast of characters who gradually come together in and around a condominium tower in Bangkok. It's a promising debut that expertly evokes a sense of place.
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In 'Nobody's Looking At You,' The Author Finds Herself Part Of The Story
The title essay reveals just how far New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm has evolved from the unassuming reporter who might once have reassured herself before an important interview.
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Nonfiction: Sex and the Cinema: How Hollywood Shaped Desire
In “Sleeping With Strangers,” David Thomson examines the ways in which movies have codified our fantasies.
Nonfiction: The Life-or-Death Struggle of Refugees Braving the Mediterranean Crossing
In “Notes on a Shipwreck,” the Italian journalist Davide Enia bears witness to the suffering of migrants fleeing Africa for the island of Lampedusa.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Fiction: In This New Caper Novel, a Yearbook Reveals Family Secrets
Elinor Lipman’s “Good Riddance” offers an up-to-the-minute look at a young woman’s life in Manhattan.
Nonfiction: The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation
“Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey From Slavery to Segregation,” by Steve Luxenberg, is an elegant history of the mostly losing battle to protect the civil rights of newly freed black citizens.
'Tram Car 015' Is A Delightful Ride
P. Djèlí Clark's novella about about two supernatural investigators on the trail of a malign spirit in a magical alternate Cairo packs wonderful characters into a thoughtfully-built world.
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Nonfiction: The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times
Two new books, “How to Disappear,” by Akiko Busch, and “Silence,” by Jane Brox, explore the benefits of tuning out.
This 'Cassandra' Prophesies Disaster But Never Reflects On It
Sharma Shields' new novel follows a young woman working at a secretive nuclear research center during World War II. She has terrible premonitions of atomic disaster, but never truly thinks about them.
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