Book Review: ‘This Is the Voice,’ by John Colapinto
John Colapinto’s “This Is the Voice” explores our vocal cords, why we have them and what humans have gained from our dexterity at making different sounds.
On a Bucolic Maine Island, Life Can Be Rocky — Especially With Teen Boys
In her latest novel, “Landslide,” Susan Conley plunges into the deep end of parenthood.
‘Wild Rain,’ by Beverly Jenkins: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Wild Rain,” by Beverly Jenkins
‘Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted,’ by Suleika Jaouad: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted,” by Suleika Jaouad
New & Noteworthy, From Black Emancipators to Love and Desire
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
'Between Two Kingdoms' Tells A Story Of Survival — And Of A Journey To Learn To Live
A new book by Suleika Jaouad, author of the column "Life, Interrupted," encompasses a less familiar tale of what it's like to survive cancer and have to figure out how to live again in its aftermath.
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The Most Serious Security Risk Facing the United States
Nicole Perlroth’s “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends” looks at the history of cyberattacks and why they are only likely to get worse.
‘Super Host,’ by Kate Russo: An Excerpt
An excerpt from “Super Host,” by Kate Russo
A Memoir About Queer Identity, Told One Gay Bar at a Time
In his new memoir, “Gay Bar,” Jeremy Atherton Lin documents his personal history and the history of queer identity by exploring gay bars around the world.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Men and Western Women
Hirsi Ali argues in “Prey” that Muslim refugees to Europe pose a threat to feminism and women’s rights.
Book Review: ‘We Run the Tides,’ by Vendela Vida
In Vendela Vida’s new novel, “We Run the Tides,” an eighth-grade friendship in 1980s San Francisco turns on the truth about a local scandal.
We Wore What? Centuries of Global Fashion as a System of Power
Catherine E. McKinley’s “The African Lookbook” and Richard Thompson Ford’s “Dress Codes” revisit the rules and repression imposed by the clothes we wear.
‘Kink’ Is Not a Book About Sex. It’s a Book About, Well, Kink.
R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell’s new story anthology, “Kink,” is about what kink as a practice can unleash.
Joyce Carol Oates’s New Stories Consider the Roads Not Taken
The author’s latest collection, “The (Other) You,” is animated by “what if” questions and different versions of the same life.
A Dead White Girl, a Black Suspect and Justice on the Jersey Shore
Alex Tresniowski’s “The Rope” tells the true story of an ugly crime and a town’s equally ugly racial history.
If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now — Sort of
In Kate Russo’s novel, “Super Host,” a London artist down on his luck opens his home to a series of renters.
Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories
Three new books investigate Lost Cause mythology, justice in post-bellum Kentucky and the vibrant life of New Orleans’s Creole community in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry
Margaret Atwood (with “Dearly”), Barbara Kingsolver (“How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons”) and Joyce Carol Oates (“American Melancholy”) return to a form they have embraced before.
In Beverly Jenkins’s Romance Novels, Black History Is Front and Center
Her latest, “Wild Rain,” stars a young woman who defies family and societal expectations by running her own horse ranch in Wyoming Territory.
Numbers, Speed, Mystery: The World of the Delivery Worker
Peter Mendelsund’s novel “The Delivery” follows an unnamed courier as he learns a cityscape, language and culture.
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