Aimee Bender’s Latest Is a Proustian Reverie
In “The Butterfly Lampshade,” objects are as alive as human beings.
Staring Into the Eye of a Whale and Seeing the Whole World
In “Fathoms,” Rebecca Giggs ranges far and wide as she explores what our relationship to these enormous mammals reveals about ourselves.
This Movie Star’s Only Hope Is Help From Her Personal Assistant
Byron Lane’s novel, “A Star Is Bored,” is influenced by his experience working for Carrie Fisher.
Trying the Japanese for War Crimes
Michel Paradis’s “Last Mission to Tokyo” explores the injustices and ironies of war crimes trials by looking at one example from postwar Japan.
A Guide to Nordic Noir
Want to read something cold and dark on a hot summer day? We’ve got recommendations.
Bring Your Flamethrower. In This Novel, Art Feels the Burn.
In “Alice Knott,” Blake Butler tells a twisting story in which famous paintings are destroyed and a woman wrestles with the elusive memories of her past.
The Yearning for the Unexplained
Colin Dickey talks about “The Unidentified,” and Miles Harvey discusses “The King of Confidence.”
Novels of Suspense and Isolation
Riley Sager’s “Home Before Dark,” Anna Downes’s “No Safe Place” and Eve Chase’s “The Daughters of Foxcote Manor.”
When a Bookish Girl’s Imagination (Truly!) Takes Flight
With nods to Narnia, Hogwarts, E. Nesbit and Frances Hodgson Burnett, Hilary McKay’s “The Time of Green Magic” is a love letter to the literary canon.
The Lies That Bind, and Break, a Friendship
In Araminta Hall’s “Imperfect Women,” three old pals find they don’t know one another quite as well as they once did. And then one of them is murdered.
Stephen King on Lauren Beukes’s ‘Splendid’ New Thriller
“Afterland,” a neo-noir, coast-to-coast chase novel, takes place after a pandemic has wiped out 99 percent of the men in the world.
New in Paperback: ‘The Memory Police’ and ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
A Spellbinding Debut Leaps Across Genres to Recreate the Confusion of Trauma
Kate Reed Petty’s “True Story,” focuses on the rippling, decades-long impact from a high school sexual assault.
Does ‘His & Hers’ Mean Cozy Domestic Bliss? Not in This Book
Alice Feeney’s detective story shows just how small the world is for people who would rather not find each other.
On the ‘Mitchellverse’ and Other Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Jacob Soboroff Saw Kids in Cages. Then He Started Talking — and Writing.
In his new best seller about the practice of family separation, the NBC News correspondent does not mince words.
An Elegant, Ice-Cold Thriller Served Straight Up With a Twist
In Stan Parish’s new novel, “Love and Theft,” a Vegas jewel heist goes off perfectly. Or does it?
The Last Book That Made Aimee Bender Laugh Out Loud
“Especially the most amazingly weird and right sentence with ‘lasagna’ in it.”
‘The Pull of the Stars,’ by Emma Donoghue: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “The Pull of the Stars,” by Emma Donoghue
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