Open Book: Where Charlotte and Jane Meet
A new book matches the events of Charlotte Brontë’s life with those of her heroine Jane Eyre.
The Book Review Podcast: ‘Lights On, Rats Out’
Cree LeFavour talks about her new memoir, and Andrew Sean Greer discusses his new novel, “Less.”
Fiction: Tales of the Unhinged: A Poet’s Short-Story Collection
The characters in Olivia Clare’s “Disasters in the First World” are often unstable, possibly even deranged.
Fiction: A Darkly Comic Novel About Turning 30 Without Growing Up
Ruth, the protagonist of Rachel Khong’s ‘Goodbye, Vitamin,’ most definitely does not have it all figured out.
The Shortlist: In Three New Novels, Summer Escapes Prove Illusory
Three novels show that summer escapes, whether to seaside cottages or the great cities of Europe, rarely avoid the turmoil their characters have fled.
Inside the List: Two Poets Walk Into a Bookstore
Collections of poetry are in short supply on the hardcover lists these days. But it wasn’t always thus, as Edna St. Vincent Millay once proved.
Fiction: A Debut Novel Spirals Through Loss, Desire and Longing
In “Pretend We Are Lovely,” Noley Reid’s first novel, a family tries to come to grips with a sudden death.
Fiction: Help Wanted: Only Women Need Apply
In Catherine Lacey’s “The Answers,” a famous actor tries to design the perfect partner piece by piece.
Paperback Row
Six new paperback titles to check out this week.
Letters to the Editor
Readers respond to the Jane Austen issue and more.
Michiko Kakutani, Times’s Feared and Revered Book Critic, Is Stepping Down
Ms. Kakutani has reviewed books at The New York Times since 1983 and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1998. The paper named Parul Sehgal one of its book critics.
Literary World Reacts to Michiko Kakutani’s Departure
Did Michiko Kakutani — who stepped down after 38 years as The Times’s chief book critic — influence your literary tastes? We’d like to hear about it.
Newsbook: 3 Books That Delve Into What Work Means to Us
The workplace is evolving, as is our relationship to it. These three novels explore how work interacts with our personal lives.
Editors' Choice: 9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from editors and critics at The New York Times.
Nonfiction: England’s Poet of Melancholy, and Why He Never Went Out of Print
Peter Parker’s “Housman Country” describes a poet who evoked a timeless countryside when England was becoming increasingly urban.
By the Book: Jane Green: By the Book
The author of “The Sunshine Sisters” is drawn to books by their covers: “There is still nothing like browsing in a bookstore with all the time in the world, allowing myself to be drawn to whatever catches my eye.”
Roving Eye: Remains of the Day
What can writers’ diaries tell us about our vexed relationship with time?
Fiction: A Fictional Patricia Highsmith as Strange as the Real One
Jill Dawson’s novel “The Crime Writer” uses the life of Patricia Highsmith to explore the territory between reality and fantasy.
Nonfiction: Three New Books Discuss How to Confront and Reform Racist Policing
Books by former Dallas police chief David O. Brown and the law professor Paul Butler, and a collection edited by Angela J. Davis, call for transformation of the system.
Fiction: In ‘So Much Blue,’ a Married Painter Spills Secrets
The artist at the center of Percival Everett’s new novel provides three narrative threads, including one of his affair in Paris.
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