Fiction: In ‘Camino Island,’ John Grisham Takes a Vacation From Writing John Grisham Novels
Stolen F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts, colorful booksellers and a sleepy resort town make for a leisurely, lawyerless John Grisham jaunt.
'Last Kid Left' Is A Summer Read For People Who Hate The Light
Rosecrans Baldwin's new novel probably shouldn't have come out in summer: It's got the trappings of a beach read — a shore town, tourists, a murder — but it strays into some very dark territory.
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Beach Reads You Need: Four Sandy Summer Romances
Our monthly romance roundup rolls on with four beach-appropriate reads for June, from the supernatural to the astronomical to an old-fashioned tale of family lost and found when you least expect it.
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'The Essex Serpent' Spreads Its Wings
Sarah Perry's historical novel is gloriously alive, teeming with bugs, moss and marsh, unconventional spirits and a darker undercurrent of fear about a legendary monster haunting the Essex coast.
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Newsbook: 3 Books on the Evolution of the Gay Rights Movement
As gay pride month kicks into gear, here are three books on the history of the gay rights movement.
Open Book: The Luckiest Man on Earth
In “The Pride of the Yankees,” Richard Sandomir tells the story behind what he calls “the first great sports film.”
The Book Review Podcast: Al Franken on Life in the Senate
Franken discusses his new political memoir; Thomas E. Ricks talks about “Churchill and Orwell”; and Dav Pilkey on the movie adaptation of “Captain Underpants” and more.
A Return to Middle-Earth, 44 Years After Tolkien’s Death
In “Beren and Luthien,” J.R.R. Tolkien’s son traces the romance between a human and an elf through his father’s notes and drafts and epic poems.
Nonfiction: A Poet’s Loving Take on Her Unorthodox Catholic Family
In her memoir “Priestdaddy,” the poet Patricia Lockwood writes about growing up the daughter of an irrepressible Catholic priest.
Nonfiction: Lenin’s Return From Exile Put Russia on the Fast Track to Revolution
In “Lenin on the Train,” Catherine Merridale explains how Russian chaos in 1917 helped lead to a dictatorship in the name of the proletariat.
Nonfiction: A Counterterrorism Expert Explains How We Got Here and What Lies Ahead
In “Anatomy of Terror,” the former F.B.I. agent Ali Soufan assesses the relentless spread of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
Fiction: Arundhati Roy’s Return to the Form That Made Her Famous
In her first novel since the legendary “God of Small Things,” Roy writes of a group of outcasts who come together during a protest in India.
Fiction: Insects Falling on Books, and Other Tales of Unsettling Trespasses
In “Bad Dreams and Other Stories,” Tessa Hadley flips over the surface of things to disclose the uncanny within all that is commonplace.
Fiction: Elephants Escape Time and Space in These Stories’ Porous Borders
The short stories in Kanishk Tharoor’s debut collection, “Swimmer Among the Stars,” span space and time.
Fiction: A Noir Novel of Motherhood, With a Modern Twist
“Woman No. 17,” Edan Lepucki’s second novel, examines notions of art, identity and motherhood. The men who dominate noir are nowhere to be found.
Fiction: Filial Devotion, Sorely Tested in Minae Mizumura’s Novel
In “Inheritance From Mother,” a middle-aged woman must deal with her aging and demanding mother and her husband’s infidelity.
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Fiction: A Blue-Collar Specialist Takes a Turn at Well-Off Professionals
In a new collection, “Trajectory,” Richard Russo focuses less on his usual down-at-the-heel characters than on members of the upper middle class.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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