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“The Taking of Jemima Boone,” the first nonfiction book by the novelist Matthew Pearl, recounts a legendary abduction case that complicates our view of relations between settlers and Native Americans during westward expansion.
“The Every,” a follow-up to Eggers’s 2013 novel “The Circle,” is meant to scare us straight, sunk as we are in tech complacency.
In Onuzo’s new novel, “Sankofa,” a British woman discovers her long-lost father is the ex-dictator of a West African country.
In “We Are Not Like Them,” Christine Pride and Jo Piazza team up to create a fictional reckoning that channels too-true headlines.
David Hackett Fischer’s “Albion’s Seed,” published in 1989, describes today’s United States with stunning prescience.
A debut fiction collection imagines Black characters reckoning with this country’s legacy — and present reality — of white violence.
In his new book, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker makes an argument for rational thinking and reminds us of how it’s done.
“Fight Night” is the story of three generations of women as told by the youngest of them.
Jayne Allen’s debut novel, “Black Girls Must Die Exhausted,” introduces a Los Angeles reporter who is enduring more than her share of worries.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Powers talks about his new novel, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers discusses “The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.”
Liana Finck illustrates what it looks like when our best ideas are let loose upon the world.
In Katherine Applegate’s “Willodeen,” an orphan girl in a land called Perchance learns that the fates of all of Earth’s creatures are intertwined.
In Jewell Parker Rhodes’s “Paradise on Fire,” a young mapmaker in a wilderness program for Black city kids fights fire with fire.
“A Calling for Charlie Barnes,” Ferris’s new novel, is a vivid portrait of a man’s dreams and failures.
Two mysteries and a story collection span the American South, from 1980s North Carolina to small-town Mississippi to Tennessee.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Evan Osnos’s “Wildland” and Alec Ross’s “The Raging 2020s” take different paths to arrive at the same worrisome conclusion about the country’s future.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The Times.
“I literally start to sweat. I’ll rush home to have another go at ‘The Golden Bowl,’ or whatever.”
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