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In Sarah Moss’s new novel, shut-in vacationers in Scotland observe each other and the state of the world with suspicion.
In “Troubled,” Kenneth R. Rosen investigates the kind of tough-love programs he was placed in as a teenager and exposes their unusual methods.
Comey’s “Saving Justice” is a revealing memoir that describes his feelings about Trump and his worries about the nation.
Andrew Arnold’s “What’s the Matter, Marlo?” and Matthew Cordell’s “Bear Island” separate the person from the emotions, and model empathy.
S. Kirk Walsh took a writing class with the novelist E.L. Doctorow and discovered a whole new world of sound.
“Gone to the Woods” is a memoir so rife with childhood trauma he wrote it in the third person.
Yu discusses his National Book Award-winning novel, and David S. Brown talks about “The Last American Aristocrat,” his biography of Henry Adams.
Marilyn Stasio surveys the latest crime novels and finds them very much to her liking.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Andrea Pitzer’s new book resurrects the story of William Barents’s 16th-century expeditions to the Arctic.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“My late father considered the Bible the inerrant Word of God ghostwritten by a single privileged eyewitness from creation to revelation. I explained, no, it was actually a lost and found scrapbook riddled with time gaps, savage violence and contradictory accounts. And yet...”
Eley Williams’s first novel, “The Liar’s Dictionary,” is a hilarious and clever homage to the power of words, both real and imagined.
With “Ready Player Two,” the novelist goes back to the future he created in “Ready Player One.”
Bette Howland’s 1974 memoir, recently reissued, recounts her time in a psychiatric ward and the people she met there.
Robert Jones Jr.’s debut novel tells the story of two enslaved boys in love.
An excerpt from “I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography,” by John Thompson with Jesse Washington
Peter Ho Davies’s novel, “A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself,” tells the story of one family’s beginnings to show what to expect when you’re raising a real human being.
“The Hearing Trumpet,” first published in 1974, follows a 92-year-old protagonist far past reality’s dull edge.
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