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Book Review: ‘The Revolutionary,’ by Stacy Schiff
In “The Revolutionary,” Stacy Schiff presents an enthralling portrait of Samuel Adams, who, perhaps more than any other of America’s founders, set the country on its course toward independence.
Book Review: ‘The Pachinko Parlor,” by Elisa Shua Dusapin
The National Book Award-winning author and translator of “Winter in Sokcho” return with another quietly powerful tale of dislocation.
Book Review: ‘The Confessions of Matthew Strong,” by Ousmane K. Power-Greene
In Ousmane K. Power-Greene’s “The Confessions of Matthew Strong,” a white supremacist kidnaps a Black academic and traps her on a Southern plantation.
‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment
Hanya Yanagihara’s best-selling novel comes to the BAM stage, and raises the question: How much suffering can the protagonist (and the audience) endure?
Siddhartha Mukherjee Talks About ‘The Gene’
The oncologist and Pulitzer-winning science writer discusses his 2016 book about the history of genetics, and the novelist Kate Atkinson talks about her spy novel “Transcription.”
New Story Collections From T.C. Boyle, Andrea Barrett and Others
Short fiction by T.C. Boyle, Jane Campbell, Andrea Barrett and Peter Christopher.
Book Review: ‘On Every Tide,’ by Sean Connolly
“On Every Tide,” by the historian Sean Connolly, traces the patterns — and staggering numbers — of Irish migration from the 19th century to the 21st.
Book Review: ‘The Ruin of All Witches,’ by Malcolm Gaskill
“The Ruin of All Witches,” by Malcolm Gaskill, is a riveting history of life in a 17th-century New England frontier town, where the stress of isolation, foul weather, disease and death led inexorably to accusations of witchcraft.
New Psychological Thrillers
In Simon Stephenson’s new novel, “Sometimes People Die,” patients at a London hospital are dying at a rapid clip — especially ones who shouldn’t be.
Book Review: ‘Is Mother Dead,’ by Vigdis Hjorth
The Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s new novel, “Is Mother Dead,” features a middle-aged painter desperate to reconcile with the parent from whom she has long been estranged.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In ‘From Scratch,’ the Locke Sisters Tell a Story of Love, Loss and Food
For the new Netflix series, Tembi Locke joined forces with her younger sister, Attica, a successful novelist and TV writer, to adapt her own memoir.
Roger Welsch, ‘America’s Premier Storyteller,’ Dies at 85
Author, humorist and tractor buff, he quit academia and found fame as a correspondent from the Nebraska heartland for the CBS News program “Sunday Morning.”
How Toni Morrison Wrote Her Most Challenging Novel
‘Jazz’ is a roaming, musical book, writes the poet Morgan Parker. It reads differently than the author’s others and is said to have been her favorite.
Kelly Ripa Wrote for So Long, She Wore Out Her Chair
The morning show veteran did not mince words when she described her journey to become a first-time author.
Book Review: ‘The Sassoons’ by Joseph Sassoon
In “The Sassoons,” Joseph Sassoon charts his family’s triumphs and tragedies across continents and centuries.
Ken Burns By the Book Interview
“What about ‘O Pioneers!’ or ‘My Ántonia’?” asks the documentarian and author of the forthcoming photo book “Our America.” “For that matter, what about Gabriel García Márquez? We do not have a copyright on the word ‘American.’”
Poem: The Son I’ll Never Have
This poem adroitly explores complex emotions around the speaker’s decision not to have a child.
Review: ‘The Passenger,’ by Cormac McCarthy
In “The Passenger,” a pair of siblings contend with the world’s enigmas and their own demons.
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