Nonfiction: The Morning After: One Man’s Quest for a Hangover Cure
Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s “Hungover” is filled with boozy factoids, eccentric remedies and tales of alcoholic adventures on several continents.
Just How Tight Are Family Ties When Your Sister's A 'Serial Killer'?
Oyinkan Braithwaite's wry, sly debut novel follows two sisters, dowdy Korede and gorgeous Ayoola — who has a habit of killing her boyfriends. Korede cleans up her sister's messes, but for how long?
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Unseen Forces Menace 'The Houseguest'
Amparo Dávila is often described as Mexico's answer to Shirley Jackson, and The Houseguest -- her first collection to be translated into English --radiates a sense of unease and calamity.
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'Hardly Children' Is Restless And Strange — Just Like Humanity
The spare, slightly creepy off-white cover of Laura Adamczyk's debut collection is perfect for the uncomfortable stories within it, works that examine family, childhood, adulthood, gender and race.
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Page to Screen: When Novelists Turned to TV: Everyone Was Suddenly Using ‘Reveal’ as a Noun
Sign of the times? The University of Iowa, home to the famous Writers’ Workshop, now has a television-writing course.
The Book Review Podcast: The Epic Tragedy of Vietnam
Max Hastings discusses his new history of the war, and Sue Prideaux talks about the life of Friedrich Nietzsche.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'Heirs Of The Founders' Looks At Efforts To Stave Off Civil War
H.W. Brands brings to life a transitional era of American politics when the scope and power of the federal government was unknown, as were the boundaries of the United States.
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Children’s Books: Keeping the Spirit of Hanukkah Alive, in Two Picture Books
One is set in the world of Sydney Taylor’s All-of-a-Kind Family. One features talking latkes. Both capture the holiday’s promise that light will triumph over darkness.
Fiction: The End Is Near in Two Dystopian Debut Novels
In “Severance,” by Ling Ma, and “We Can Save Us All,” by Adam Nemett, young people are faced with preventing, or even just surviving, impending apocalypse.
Sketchbook: A Graphic Tribute to Anne Sexton
The illustrator Katie Fricas celebrates what would have been the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s 90th birthday this month.
The Shortlist: Debut Story Collections Full of Vulnerable People and Their Pain
In three new collections, writers explore the lives of individuals testing the boundaries that separate themselves from other people.
Fiction: Liane Moriarty’s New Novel, Set at a Spa, Features Some Killer Treatments
With “Nine Perfect Strangers,” the “Big Little Lies” author has delivered another ambitious, darkly comic thriller.
Fiction: A Dark New Satire Asks, How Far Would You Go to Become Famous?
A grasping, conniving young writer schemes his way to the top in “A Ladder to the Sky,” John Boyne’s dark satire of literary ambition.
New in Paperback: ‘Lou Reed,’ ‘The King Is Always Above the People’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Fiction: Husbands and Wives Magically Morph in a Japanese Story Collection
In “The Lonesome Bodybuilder,” the author and playwright Yukiko Motoya spins imaginative analogies of marital dysfunction.
Inside the List: Those Best-of-the-Year Times Book Lists? They’ve Been Around Awhile
The paper’s “100 Notables” history goes back more than a century.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
From Our Archives: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: commemorating Anne Sexton.
'Extinction' Digs Up Buried Memories and Unacknowledged History
The title Josephine Wilson's new novel refers to its protagonist, an elderly man who feels useless, extinct — and whose journey is to find the means for growth and change within himself.
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