New in Paperback: ‘An American Marriage,’ ‘How Democracies Die’
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Fiction: A Grieving Mother Converses With Her Dead Son in Yiyun Li’s New Novel
In “Where Reasons End,” an unnamed narrator plumbs the nature of suffering — and the limits of language — in a dialogue with the child she mourns.
Children’s Books: Picture Books That Let Imaginations Soar
In the latest from Beth Ferry and Tom Lichtenheld, Shaun Tan and others, a boy and his dog head to the moon, a crab bakes cakes and a cat foils a bakery break-in.
Profile: Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer
Benjamin Dreyer sees language the way an epicure sees food. And there are cretins everywhere he looks.
Sketchbook: The Urban Grid of Writerdom
An illustrated map of the authorial life.
12 New Books to Look for in February
A follow-up to “The Hate U Give.” An investigation into the Chernobyl disaster. True crime in Northern Ireland. And more.
The Shortlist: A Quartet of First Novels Takes Readers From Trinidad to the Himalayas
Disappearances link the works of Claire Adam, Madhuri Vijay, Juliet Lapidos and James Charlesworth: missing persons, missing manuscripts and missed connections.
Crime: Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column Exhumes the Murderous Past
New novels take readers back to Tudor England (C.J. Sansom), 1920s England (Charles Todd) and the age of Queen Victoria (Mick Finlay).
Nonfiction: The Examined Life May Be More Worth Living. Reading About It Is Another Matter.
Reema Zaman, Sophia Shalmiyev and Pam Houston all seek solace in memoir for their pain.
Nonfiction: A Deep Dive Into the ‘Underground’ World of Caves and Tunnels
Will Hunt travels from New York’s subways to Australian ochre mines to tell the subterranean story of what exists beneath us.
Fiction: A Novel Set at the Dakota Imagines John Lennon as a Neighbor
In Tom Barbash’s “The Dakota Winters,” a searching young man finds an unlikely companion in the former Beatle’s last year of life.
From Our Archives: Revisiting Roberto Bolaño — ‘the Visceral Realist’
The Book Review’s past sheds light on the books of the present. This week: James Wood on the Chilean author’s legacy.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Editors’ Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: The Brutal Economy of Cleaning Other People’s Messes, for $9 an Hour
In “Maid,” Stephanie Land describes what it’s like to be a single mother struggling to survive.
Fiction: A Fantasy Set in Africa, by Way of Hieronymus Bosch, García Márquez and Marvel Comics
Michiko Kakutani reviews “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” the first volume of Marlon James’s “Dark Star” trilogy. The novel is packed with dizzying references fused into something new and startling.
By the Book: Marlon James: By the Book
The author, most recently, of “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” admires fantasy fiction that feels “wonderfully strange and alarmingly familiar at the same time. That and a woman or man who can wield two swords.”
Nonfiction: The Persistence of Anti-Semitism
Deborah E. Lipstadt’s “Antisemitism: Here and Now” charts the new guises of Jew hatred.
Fiction: A Novel About the Fate of a Piano — and the Dreams It Embodies
In “The Weight of a Piano,” Chris Cander follows the members of a family from Russia to California and traces the way music shadows their memories.
Essay: Lena Dunham Pays Homage to Her Late Literary Hero Diana Athill
The British editor and writer, who died last week at 101, modeled a life of fierce, free-spirited independence.
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