The Shortlist: Suspense Fiction That Mines the Terrain of Female Guilt
New novels by Deborah Moggach, Nuala Ellwood, Hallie Ephron and Ruth Ware explore the complex ethics, traumas and loyalties that define women’s lives.
Essay: Epic Stories That Expand the Universal Family Plot
Julian Lucas considers how family stories go beyond genealogy to discover those “who became ‘our’ ancestors” and those who didn’t.
Fiction: Feminist Fiction From the Philippines, Written 50 Years Ago
In Nick Joaquin’s “The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical Gothic,” women are granted powers that are both uncanny and real.
Paperback Row
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Fiction: On the Road: Two Children Brave the Irish Famine
Paul Lynch’s novel “Grace” asks timeless questions about suffering and survival through the story of a sister and brother in the Irish famine.
Our Back Pages: Notes From the Book Review Archives
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: Nora Ephron on the advantages of revision.
Letter to the Editor
Mark Lilla responds to Beverly Gage’s review of his new book, “The Once and Future Liberal.”
Editors' Choice: 10 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Newsbook: Deep Thinking on Affirmative Action
Two books explore the contentious issue, while another demonstrates why such corrective policies may not be enough.
'The Burning Girl' Is More Than Just A Pretty Victim
Edgar Allan Poe once wrote that the death of a beautiful woman is "unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world." In her new book, The Burning Girl, Claire Messud responds: Not to us women.
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Fiction: On the Lam With a Brooklyn Mom
In Emily Culliton’s entertaining debut, “The Misfortune of Marion Palm,” the antiheroine makes off with a bundle of other people’s money.
Nonfiction: A Panorama of the Gilded Age, Seen Through Sargent’s Art
In “Sargent’s Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas,” Donna M. Lucey depicts the glittering world of the late-19th-century 1 percent.
Fiction: The Amish Guide to the Apocalypse
In “When the English Fall,” debut novelist David Williams asks how one Amish community can weather collapse in the face of global catastrophe.
Non-Fiction: David Thomson’s ‘Warner Bros,’ a History of the Studio and the Family
Was Jack Warner more important than the people who directed his movies? A famous film critic weighs in.
Jesmyn Ward: By the Book
The author of, most recently, “Sing, Unburied, Sing” is a self-described “reading glutton” who reads everything: “Each genre fulfills a different need I have. Each book teaches me something.”
Terry Pratchett’s Unpublished Work Crushed by Steamroller
Mr. Pratchett, a wildly popular fantasy novelist who died in 2015, had requested that his unfinished work and computers be destroyed.
Mirrors And Neck Ruffs: A Graphic Novel Takes On Velázquez
Writer Santiago García and artist Javier Olivares examine Diego Velázquez' painting Las Meninas and its influence down the centuries with a heady — and sometimes heavy — mix of comics and high art.
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When the News Begs for a Book: Behind the Newsbook Column
Concepción de León starts with dozens of books and whittles her list down to three. This is how she does it.
Non-Fiction: Affairs to Remember: Nora Ephron’s Classic Rom-Coms
In “I’ll Have What She’s Having,” Erin Carlson argues that Ephron took a Hollywood genre and made it her own.
Nonfiction: Two New Old Books That Show Walt Whitman’s Different Selves
Electronic sleuthing has identified two additions to the Whitman canon. What do they tell us about the man who sang of himself and of America?
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