Nonfiction
Fake News: It’s as American as George Washington’s Cherry Tree
Kurt Andersen’s “Fantasyland” argues that alternative facts are baked into the American character.
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Life in a Police State, Through the Searing Story of a Refugee’s Disappearance
In “A Disappearance in Damascus,” the journalist Deborah Campbell searches for her guide, an Iraqi refugee.
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Nicole Krauss: By the Book
The author of “Great House,” “The History of Love” and, most recently, “Forest Dark” prefers to read classic novels on the plane: “Twelve hours in economy is not the moment to gamble on a book.”
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Change Is in the Air at the E. B. White Farm
Discovering the author’s home in Maine, where he wrote “Charlotte’s Web” and heard those darn crickets.
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CreditJing Wei The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Novels, graphic and otherwise, about the world at war, life with no future and imagined universes.
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CreditSimon Pemberton What the Greek Myths Teach Us About Anger in Troubled Times
In “Enraged,” Emily Katz Anhalt shows how the earliest works of Western literature questioned the values of the society that produced it.
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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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The Book Review Podcast
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William Taubman discusses his biography of Gorbachev, and N. K. Jemisin talks about reading, writing and reviewing science fiction and fantasy.
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All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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Ben Blum tries to get to the bottom of his cousin’s participation in an armed bank robbery.
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Credit Faulkner and Other Ghosts Sing Through Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel
Ward’s third novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” follows a tender teenager and his drug-addicted mother on a road trip.
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Rushdie’s 13th novel is exhausting, but it’s a treat when focused on a villain who resembles Donald Trump.
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Credit ‘Cuz’ Mourns a Loss and Denounces a System
Danielle Allen’s new book is about her cousin’s troubled life and death, and his experience in and out of the California criminal justice system.
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Credit A Heroine in the Mold of Huck and Scout
In Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel, a remarkably self-sufficient 14-year-old girl must try to survive her survivalist father.
