Inside the List: A Debut Novelist Takes On Islamophobia
Samira Ahmed — whose Y.A. novel, “Love, Hate & Other Filters,” stars a Muslim Indian-American teenager — describes how her own experiences shaped her story.
Time Capsule: Under the Covers
From Ovid and Baudelaire to Nabokov, Roth and E. L. James, some of the most seminal texts in literary history are also among the most erotic. Herewith, a selection of 50 book jackets (arranged in order of original publication) that have become as iconic as the risqué work within.
The Shortlist: Troubled Marriages, Old and New
Four authors explore the various ways that wedded life can go awry.
Fiction: Tempting Fate With a Season of Romance, Sex, Art and Destiny
Madame Nielsen’s “The Endless Summer” — a novel combining nostalgia, reverie and tragedy — is about a family who decides to live it up.
Fiction: A Story of Two Doctors, and a Secret Between Them
In her debut novel, “The Queen of Hearts,” the physician Kimmery Martin writes about lifelong friendship and the deceptions that can tear at it.
Fiction: Fissures Splinter a Family’s Suburban Facade
In this dark, seething debut, 13-year-old Colin struggles to come to terms with his father’s suicide and his own sexuality.
Children’s Books: In Y.A., Where Has All the Good Sex Gone?
In the 1970s, books like Judy Blume’s “Forever” showed teenagers that sex was natural and pleasurable. Now it’s more often a danger zone. What happened?
Self-Helped: How One Book Changed My Relationship With Money
The nine-step money-management system in “Your Money or Your Life” allowed both its writers to retire early.
Editors’ Choice: 12 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Fiction: Strangers in the Night, Exchanging Genre Conventions
Laura Lippman’s new novel, “Sunburn,” draws its inspiration from 1940s noir like “Double Indemnity.”
Nonfiction: Writers Pay Lip Service to a Universal Gesture of Love
In “The Kiss,” Brian Turner collects musings on all aspects of the act, from the romantic to the familial to the tragic.
Essay: Good Paperback Vibrations
What one reader learned about sex from the best-selling novels of his childhood.
Nonfiction: A Recovering Sex and Porn Addict Tells All
Erica Garza’s debut memoir, “Getting Off,” reveals a path to rehabilitation that is equal parts sordid and inspiring.
Nonfiction: A Young Wife Toys With Adultery
In Molly McCloskey’s novel “Straying,” a feckless American marries into an Irish family, then looks for love elsewhere.
Fiction: A Marriage Upended, a Life Destroyed
In Tayari Jones’s new novel, “An American Marriage,” a newlywed black attorney is wrongly convicted of rape.
By the Book: Tayari Jones: By the Book
The novelist Tayari Jones keeps a Bible even though she was raised without religion: “I’ve come to understand that, as a black Southerner, I am a Christian, whether I am observant or not.”
Fiction: Jamie Quatro’s First Novel Centers on Religious and Sexual Passion
In “Fire Sermon,” the author of the story collection “I Want to Show You More” describes a married woman’s love affair.
New & Noteworthy
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Nonfiction: The Sex Toy Shops That Switched On a Feminist Revolution
Peggy Orenstein reviews “Buzz” and “Vibrator Nation,” two new books about the history and significance of sex toys.
Match Book: Dear Match Book: Poems for Young Readers
Verses that will forge bonds between you and your little ones through the power of language.
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