Nonfiction: Why America’s Great Cities Are Becoming More Economically Segregated
In “The New Urban Crisis,” Richard Florida argues that the revival of central cities has made them more unequal and more segregated.
Fiction: From City to Jungle, a New Novel Summons the Politics and History of Two Islands
Northern Ireland and Papua New Guinea don’t seem so different in Nick Laird’s new novel, “Modern Gods.”
An Ancient Curse Awakens In 'The Suffering Tree'
A family curse, a resurrection and a vengeful witch are at the center of Elle Cosimano's Southern Gothic chiller The Suffering Tree. But the book elides its setting's history of racial violence.
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'Too Fat, Too Slutty' Challenges Cultural Expectations Of Women
Anne Helen Petersen's new book is a thoughtful consideration of several public women — from Nicki Minaj to Hillary Clinton — who've run up against the invisible expectations our culture has of them.
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'The Force' Is Basically 'Game Of Thrones' With Cops — And That's Pretty Great
Don Winslow's new novel is packed with crooked cops and crookeder crooks, all defending their territories and trying to maintain a status quo where everyone earns, everyone eats and no wars break out.
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20 Years of L.G.B.T.Q. Lit: A Timeline
From “The Vagina Monologues” to “The End of Eddy,” here are 25 books by and about L.G.B.T.Q. individuals that have shaped the genre.
For These Collaborators, There’s No ‘I’ in ‘Best Seller’
Neal Stephenson and the novelist Nicole Galland have teamed up on a fantasy story, “The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.,” at No. 11 in hardcover fiction.
Open Book: Class Ed.
In a new book, Joan C. Williams says progressives have a strategic and ethical responsibility to try to understand the white working class.
sketchbook / graphic review: ‘The Better Angels of Our Nature’
A graphic review of Steven Pinker’s book about the dramatic decline of violence in human affairs over history.
The Book Review Podcast: ‘The Boy Who Loved Too Much’
Jennifer Latson talks about “The Boy Who Loved Too Much”; Daniel Menaker discusses two new books about how to understand others and make ourselves understood.
Nonfiction: Did a Writer’s Great-Great-Grandmother Really Kill a Man? She Travels to Southern Italy to Find Out.
Helene Stapinski has been haunted by the thought of her “criminal genes.” In “Murder in Matera,” she investigates her family’s past.
Nonfiction: Why Did Lincoln Move So Slowly to Abolish Slavery? Because He Was a Racist, This Book Argues.
Fred Kaplan’s “Lincoln and the Abolitionists” emphasizes the distance between them.
The Shortlist: Four New Collections of Omnivorous Literary Criticism
These writers range widely, giving free play to their personal aesthetics and their avid curiosity.
Nonfiction: What a World Tour of Tax Codes Can Teach the U.S. About How to Reform Its Own
In “A Fine Mess,” David Cay Johnston cites examples from Estonia to New Zealand of how tax redesigns can drive economic success.
Nonfiction: Where Do Babies Come From? And Why Did It Take Scientists So Long to Find Out?
For centuries, the mysteries of egg and sperm eluded even the greatest minds, Edward Dolnick writes in “The Seeds of Life.”
Fiction: Fathers and Sons — and Maybe Two More Sons
Susan Rieger’s novel “The Heirs” pits an upper-crust New York family against two young men claiming a piece of the patriarch’s estate.
Fiction: When the Fox Becomes a Friend
In Paula Cocozza’s hypnotic first novel, “How to Be Human,” a lonely woman strikes up a relationship with a feral fox.
Nonfiction: 26 Missing Genes and the Exuberant Affections They Lead To
Jennifer Latson’s “The Boy Who Loved Too Much” follows the story of a child with Williams syndrome, a genetic condition, who meets the world with unshakeable affection.
Fiction: A Nuanced Novel Examines the Mystery of Radicalization
Laleh Khadivi’s novel “A Good Country” poses the question: How does a studious American boy, the child of prosperous Iranian immigrants, fall into radical Islam?
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Six new paperbacks of interest this week.
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