Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 5:00am
By Kim Brooks
In “Inferno,” Catherine Cho writes honestly of surviving postpartum psychosis.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 5:00am
By Daniel Kraus
Agustina Bazterrica’s dystopian second novel, “Tender Is the Flesh,” uses cannibalism to highlight the inhumanity of factory farming.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 5:00am
By Elizabeth Kolbert
In “A Furious Sky,” Eric Jay Dolin recounts 500 years of reckoning with the monster storms that come in off the Atlantic Ocean.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 5:00am
By Sarah Bird
White’s new novel, “A Saint From Texas,” traces the fates of Yvonne — who marries a French nobleman — and Yvette, who becomes a nun.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 5:00am
A selection of recent audiobooks of note; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 5:00am
By Michael Christie
In “Migrations,” Charlotte McConaghy’s visceral reimagining of “Moby-Dick,” a young woman documents some of the world’s last surviving seabirds.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 5:00am
By Mimi Swartz
In “After the Last Border,” Jessica Goudeau offers a searing history of this nation’s response to humanitarian crises while recounting the stories of two refugees.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 5:00am
By Walter Isaacson
In his latest book, Edward Ball retraces an ancestor’s involvement with the Ku Klux Klan in order to shed light on the country’s legacy of white supremacy.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 5:00am
By Tucker Malarkey
In “Owls of the Eastern Ice,” Jonathan Slaght recounts his quest to track down the elusive Blakiston’s fish owl, a journey that will push him to the edge of endurance.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 5:00am
By Peter Orner
The protagonist of “The Tunnel,” by the Israeli novelist A.B. Yehoshua, tries to carry on after a dementia diagnosis.