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.
Nothing Is Taboo In 'Twenty-Ninth Year'
Hala Alyan reflects on three decades of life in an intimate, unsparing new poetry collection that offers a unique look at life as a Palestinian in exile, a woman, and a young person looking for love.
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'Here And Now And Then' Is A Perilous Mix Of Parenthood And Time Travel
In Mike Chen's debut novel, a time-traveling secret agent is stranded in the past and has to live out a normal life — including a family — that becomes a problem when he returns to his own time.
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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.
'Underground' Digs Deep Into The World Beneath Our Feet
Will Hunt approaches the world of underground caves and bunkers, death and life, with an unusual dedication and open-mindedness — and some striking photography — that is difficult to resist.
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In 'We Cast A Shadow,' The Horrors Are Close To Home
Maurice Carlos Ruffin's razor-sharp new novel is set in a dystopian near future where race relations have deteriorated further and scientists have developed a procedure to "demelanize" black people.
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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.
Pack Your Bags And Your Books For 6 Literary Journeys With Nancy Pearl
The latest stack of books from our go-to librarian will transport you to Newfoundland, New Orleans, Sierra Leone, Malaysia, Massachusetts, and the British Isles.
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Nonfiction: An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
In “Zucked,” the venture capitalist Roger McNamee — a former mentor to Mark Zuckerberg — reveals the inner workings behind the platform’s troubling rise to global behemoth.
Even In His Own Memoir 'Let Me Finish,' Chris Christie Gets Upstaged By Trump
In his book, he says the transition team head is "the second biggest job in American politics" — and it is clear he took it on like he would have the top job, as if the shiny new presidency were his.
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Books News: Meg Medina Wins Newbery Medal and Sophie Blackall Is Awarded Her Second Caldecott
Women and Latinx authors and illustrators made a strong showing in this year’s prestigious honors, as diversity in children’s books is becoming more evident.
Fiction: A Bolaño Novel About Young Poets in Mexico City, Hungry for Fame, Sex and Adventure. No, Not That One.
Roberto Bolaño’s coming-of-age tale “The Spirit of Science Fiction,” written around 1984, foreshadows the Chilean author’s epic 1998 breakthrough, “The Savage Detectives.”
'The Falconer' Is A Vivid Tale Of Adolescence And Athleticism
Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler loves basketball but struggles to fit in with her peers. Critic Maureen Corrigan says Dana Czapnik's protagonist reminded her of Francie from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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