Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:01am
An excerpt from “Real Life,” by Brandon Taylor
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:01am
An excerpt from “The Man in the Red Coat,” by Julian Barnes
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:01am
An excerpt from ‘The Adventurer’s Son,’ by Roman Dial
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:00am
By Oyinkan Braithwaite
In Alexis Schaitkin’s debut, a woman tries to solve the mystery of her sister’s death on the island of “Saint X.”
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:00am
In his third collection, “Living Weapon,” Rowan Ricardo Phillips invokes superheroes and hard-boiled crime to grapple with gun violence, climate change and more.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:00am
By Blair Braverman
After Cody Dial disappeared, his father — the ecologist and explorer Roman Dial — set out to find him, a tale he recounts in “The Adventurer’s Son.”
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:00am
By Jeremy O. Harris
In the debut novel “Real Life,” a biochemistry Ph.D. candidate confronts the harder lessons of how to be a gay black man in a white world.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:00am
By Jen McDonald
William T. Vollmann’s novel “The Lucky Star,” part of his “transgender trilogy,” is fixated on femininity and the ways it is performed.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:00am
A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 5:00am
By Sheelah Kolhatkar
In “Whistleblower,” Susan Fowler, a former software engineer at Uber, describes the harassment she endured while working at the company.