Fiction About Lives in Ukraine
The critic Jennifer Wilson discusses new books by Yevgenia Belorusets and Andrey Kurkov, and Ben McGrath talks about “Riverman.”
They Were College Friends. Now They’re Art Thieves.
Grace D. Li’s debut, “Portrait of a Thief,” is both a heist novel and a reckoning.
Immigrant Lives, Back to Back and Upside Down
Michelle de Kretser’s two-part novel, “Scary Monsters,” follows a young teacher in 1980s France and a bureaucrat in a dystopian future Australia.
New in Paperback: Haruki Murakami and Richard Thompson
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Transforming Britain From Brutality to Gentleness
Simon Heffer’s “High Minds” traces the impact of reformers on industrial Britain, and the beginnings of the welfare state.
Dragon Tales From the Authors of ‘The Girl Who Drank the Moon’ and ‘A Wish in the Dark’
Where Kelly Barnhill’s monster in “The Ogress and the Orphans” stands in for demagogy, Christina Soontornvat’s creature in “The Last Mapmaker” is a colonialist’s prize.
Even Margo Jefferson Sometimes Gets Sucked Into a Bad Thriller
“My ego says: ‘You’re better than this,’” says the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic. “And my id says: ‘Not today. Deal with it.’”
12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
U.T. Austin Acquires Archives That Give Insight Into the 1960s
The papers of Richard Goodwin, a speechwriter to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and his wife Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian, shed light on decision-making at crucial moments in American history.
What Can We Learn From Celebrity Couples of Yore?
In his new book, “Truly, Madly,” Stephen Galloway looks at the tumultuous, star-crossed marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh.
Book Review: ‘The Candy House,’ by Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan’s ambitious new novel — a sequel, of sorts, to 2010’s “A Visit From the Goon Squad” — riffs on memory, authenticity and the allure of new technology.
Newly Published, from a Suburban Search to a Seoul Flower Shop
A selection of books published this week.
A Booker Prize Winner Takes On First Love and — Just Maybe — Hope
In his follow-up to “Shuggie Bain,” Douglas Stuart tells a story of love blossoming in a barren emotional landscape.
Review: ‘Refuse to Be Done,’ by Matt Bell; ‘How to Tell a Story,’ by Aristotle; ‘Body Work,’ by Melissa Febos; ‘Write for Your Life,’ by Anna Quindlen
Some advice — helpful and otherwise — on the literary life, from living authors and Aristotle.
Challenging Denial With Enduring Images
Jack Lowery’s “It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful” tells the story of the art collectives whose work became the iconography of a movement.
In ‘The King’s Shadow,’ a Long Forgotten Spy Returns to the Spotlight
Edmund Richardson’s latest book revisits the tale of Charles Masson, a runaway British soldier who reinvented himself as an archaeologist and a spy.
Ronald Reagan’s New Economic Order, and What It Meant for America
Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order” traces the political shifts that have characterized modern American history.
Book Review: ‘Different,’ by Frans de Waal
Frans de Waal’s “Different” is a fascinating study of gender among monkeys and apes, but its account of human behavior is less satisfying.
Is It Possible to Body-Block Our Loved Ones From Pain? Alas, No.
In her essay collection, “Bomb Shelter,” Mary Laura Philpott explores the pleasures, pitfalls and challenges of loving people who will leave.
How Far Will Parents Go to Protect Their Sons?
In “The Lifeguards,” Amanda Eyre Ward imagines what happens when a group of teenagers discovers a dead body.
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