Tuesday, January 1, 2019 - 5:00am
A selection of books published this week; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Tuesday, January 1, 2019 - 5:00am
By SLOANE CROSLEY
Book publishing is big on TV and in the movies. The essayist Sloane Crosley, a former book publicist, fact-checks the shows.
Monday, December 31, 2018 - 2:00pm
By ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG
Rob Dunn’s “Never Home Alone” catalogs the world of microbial beings that share our living space and inhabit our showerheads and pillowcases.
Monday, December 31, 2018 - 5:00am
By ROBERT GOTTLIEB
In “Born to Be Posthumous,” Mark Dery probes the “eccentric life” and “mysterious genius” of the illustrator whose books have proved fiendishly irresistible.
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 4:58pm
Yascha Mounk discusses Edward J. Watts’s “Mortal Republic,” and Jonathan Lethem talks about the surge of fictional psychotropic drugs in novels.
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 12:55pm
By EMILY EAKIN
2018 was a good year for books. Some of the authors we admire weigh in on their favorite reads.
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 11:17am
In which we consult the Book Review’s past to shed light on the books of the present. This week: J. Donald Abrams on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 5:00am
By EDWARD SOREL
The creator of Sherlock Holmes harbored a deep-seated belief in mysticism, telepathy, fairies and ghosts.
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 5:00am
By JOUMANA KHATIB
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 5:00am
By JON MCGREGOR
Guy Gunaratne’s “In Our Mad and Furious City” interweaves five urban lives against a backdrop of racial and political violence.