Fiction
A Novel About Growing Up in the Middle of Death
Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s “Fruit of the Drunken Tree” describes life in war-torn Colombia, based on the author’s personal experience.
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A Debut Novel Mixes Lust With the Directionlessness of Youth
In Andrew Martin’s “Early Work,” the already shiftless life of a struggling writer is derailed by romantic infatuation.
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When First Love Is as Lethal as Religious Extremism
In R.O. Kwon’s debut novel, “The Incendiaries,” the central characters fall hard, both for each other and into the trap of a fundamentalist cult.
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Before the Holocaust, Jewish Suffering Had One Name: Kishinev
Steven Zipperstein’s “Pogrom” offers an account of a 1903 massacre of Jews that had far-reaching implications.
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Nonfiction
Photo CreditTim Enthoven A History of Everything, Served in a Cold Glass of Milk
Mark Kurlansky’s latest history, “Milk!,” ranges wide, from breast-feeding to crème vichyssoise glacée.
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Nonfiction
Photo Credit How Sweet It Is. And How Malignant.
James Walvin’s “Sugar: The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity” describes the problems with an all-too-familiar commodity.
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Editors’ Choice
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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Best Sellers
Photo Credit Best-Seller Lists for July 29, 2018
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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The Book Review Podcast
Photo CreditVictor Schrager True Crime Starring the Creator of Sherlock Holmes
Margalit Fox talks about “Conan Doyle for the Defense,” and Tina Jordan discusses this season’s thrillers.
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Essay
Photo CreditRachel Levit How Does a Novelist Write About a School Shooting?
Richard Russo reflects on readers’ reactions to “Empire Falls,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which was published in 2001, when school shootings were not so common.
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Children’s Books
Photo Credit Facts About the Natural World Astound and Delight in These Picture Books
Dancing bees, ruthless hawks, sensitive whales and an eternal forest in picture books by Evan Turk, Isabelle Arsenault, Brian Floca and more.
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Fiction
Photo CreditYuko Shimizu Competing Scientists Plus a High-Stakes University Lab Equals Murder
Megan Abbott’s dark, swampy new novel, “Give Me Your Hand,” is lit by a current of rage.
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Fiction
Photo Credit It’s 1988 and Philip Marlowe Is Retired. But Not for Long.
Lawrence Osborne’s novel “Only to Sleep” jolts Raymond Chandler’s P.I. out of his quiet Mexican lair and back into the world of scams and seductions.
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By the Book
Photo CreditIllustration by Jillian Tamaki Karin Slaughter: By the Book
The novelist Karin Slaughter, whose thriller “Pieces of Her” will be published in August, says school contests made her an insatiable reader: “I’m incredibly competitive, so perhaps my early reading passion came from wanting to humiliate my closest reading rivals by volume.”
