In “Aesthetica,” Allie Rowbottom imagines a 35-year-old ex-influencer who’s about to undergo an extreme surgery to undo every cosmetic procedure she’s endured to date.
The first major biography of the F.B.I. director in nearly 30 years, the book by Beverly Gage revises our conception of a man often remembered as little more than a cartoon villain.
“The books I try not to pick up, and don’t want to read, are ones I wrote myself and published in the past,” says the Japanese writer, whose new book is “Novelist as a Vocation.” “Though it does make me want to do better with my next work.”
“The Great Air Race,” by John Lancaster, recounts the early days of American aviation, when the budding industry struggled to get off the ground (literally) and keep aviators alive.
A new biography by Brigitta Olubas is the first to examine the life of the Australian novelist celebrated for her refined poetic fiction and acute moral vision.
In Ewan Morrison’s new novel, “How to Survive Everything,” a teenager is abducted to a pandemic survivalist colony that’s trying to prepare for an impending apocalypse.