Books

‘Super Host,’ by Kate Russo: An Excerpt

An excerpt from “Super Host,” by Kate Russo

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A Memoir About Queer Identity, Told One Gay Bar at a Time

In his new memoir, “Gay Bar,” Jeremy Atherton Lin documents his personal history and the history of queer identity by exploring gay bars around the world.

Fiction

‘Kink’ Is Not a Book About Sex. It’s a Book About, Well, Kink.

R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell’s new story anthology, “Kink,” is about what kink as a practice can unleash.

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Men and Western Women

Hirsi Ali argues in “Prey” that Muslim refugees to Europe pose a threat to feminism and women’s rights.

Fiction

Her Best Friend Claims They Witnessed a Sex Crime. She Has Her Doubts.

In Vendela Vida’s new novel, “We Run the Tides,” an eighth-grade friendship in 1980s San Francisco turns on the truth about a local scandal.

Nonfiction

We Wore What? Centuries of Global Fashion as a System of Power

Catherine E. McKinley’s “The African Lookbook” and Richard Thompson Ford’s “Dress Codes” revisit the rules and repression imposed by the clothes we wear.

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A Dead White Girl, a Black Suspect and Justice on the Jersey Shore

Alex Tresniowski’s “The Rope” tells the true story of an ugly crime and a town’s equally ugly racial history.

Fiction

Joyce Carol Oates’s New Stories Consider the Roads Not Taken

The author’s latest collection, “The (Other) You,” is animated by “what if” questions and different versions of the same life.

Fiction

If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now — Sort of

In Kate Russo’s novel, “Super Host,” a London artist down on his luck opens his home to a series of renters.

nonfiction

The Most Serious Security Risk Facing the United States

Nicole Perlroth’s “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends” looks at the history of cyberattacks and why they are only likely to get worse.