Crime: Dangerous Disappearing Acts, With Killers in Pursuit
Battered women, bankrupt businessmen and star baseball players haunt this week’s Crime column. Also a murderer who may get her own reality show.
Inside the List: Everything Is Copy
David Sedaris ponders names for his new house, Karen Kingsbury reveals she has special help writing her novels and Stephanie Garber unveils her gorgeous Pinterest inspirations.
Nonfiction: How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World
Catherine Nixey’s “The Darkening Age” tells a story of desecration on an enormous scale.
New in Paperback: ‘Rising Star,’ ‘Mrs. Fletcher’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
The Shortlist: The Struggles of Modern Motherhood in Essays, a Thriller and a Dystopian Novel
Three new books explore the traumas, anxieties, injustices and even dangers of having children.
Sketchbook: Books Gone Wild
We asked creatures from around the ecosystem to tell us what they’re reading.
Fiction: A Fable of Mozambique, Its Bloodshed and Myths
With “Woman of the Ashes,” the first novel of a trilogy, Mia Couto conjures his country’s colonial past with sensitivity and imagination.
Fiction: Fluid Friendships: A Literary Ode to the Shifting Nature of Human Bonds
Six friends pair off, split up and regroup in “Companions,” a light-footed novel by the Danish writer Christina Hesselholdt.
Fiction: A Persian Turned Parisian Insists: I’m Not an Immigrant, I’m an Exile
The narrator of Negar Djavadi’s novel, “Disoriental,” banished from her Iranian homeland, builds a life in France by recalling her family’s stories.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Our Back Pages: 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: Michael Ondaatje’s “The English Patient.”
Nonfiction: Dambisa Moyo’s Proposals for Saving Democracy
“Edge of Chaos” outlines the failures of democratic capitalism and what can be done about them.
Editors’ Choice: 8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
'Mariam Sharma' Nails The Fun Road-Trip Vibe
Summer is the season for road-trips, and Mariam Sharma Hits the Road makes for a saucy, yet emotional ride, following three Pakistani-American teens on a journey through the Deep South.
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Mannered, Pretty 'Upstate' Is Quiet To A Fault
Critic and novelist James Wood has often dinged other writers for what he calls "hysterical realism," but his new novel Upstate — while beautifully written — goes too far in the other direction.
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By the Book: Lydia Millet: By the Book
The novelist Lydia Millet, whose new story collection is “Fight No More,” was impressed as a teenager by the Marquis de Sade. “Now he’s more boring, but we all fall prey to nostalgia.”
Nonfiction: What Data Has Done to Capitalism
A new book by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge, “Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data,” explores how data-rich markets are changing societies for better and worse.
Fiction: Wartime Acts, Postwar Retribution: A Mother’s Risky Legacy
In Michael Ondaatje’s novel “Warlight,” a London family is fractured by Allied intelligence work. And the danger won’t end when the fighting is over.
Nonfiction: A Marshall Plan for China? It Existed, but Even Marshall Couldn’t Pull It Off
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan’s “The China Mission” details the hopeless effort of trying to reconcile the Chinese Communists and Chinese Nationalists.
In Haunted 'Florida,' The Storms And Panthers Are Always There. How Will You Survive?
In Lauren Groff's gorgeous, precise new story collection, Florida is a haunted place, full of eyes in the darkness — and angry, restless women, always on the move, always searching for something.
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