Thrillers
Murderous Husbands, Flapper-Era Gun Molls and Korean Assassins: The Best Winter Thrillers
Want to escape the real-life suspense novel we’re living in these days? Check out these six new whodunits.
By Charles Finch
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Want to escape the real-life suspense novel we’re living in these days? Check out these six new whodunits.
By Charles Finch
The best-selling author talks about paying homage to the rappers she grew up listening to and the challenges of writing her first book after “The Hate U Give.”
By Maria Russo
Michiko Kakutani reviews “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” the first volume of Marlon James’s “Dark Star” trilogy. The novel is packed with dizzying references fused into something new and startling.
By Michiko Kakutani
The author, most recently, of “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” admires fantasy fiction that feels “wonderfully strange and alarmingly familiar at the same time. That and a woman or man who can wield two swords.”
New novels take readers back to Tudor England (C.J. Sansom), 1920s England (Charles Todd) and the age of Queen Victoria (Mick Finlay).
By Marilyn Stasio
Jane Harper’s mysteries set in Australia have international appeal. Her latest, “The Lost Man,” hits American bookstores in February.
By Amelia Lester
Roger McNamee talks about “Zucked,” and Charles Finch discusses the season’s best thrillers.
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
“Go Ahead in the Rain,” by the poet and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib, is a love letter to the pioneering hip-hop group.
By Jennifer Szalai
This collection of work by Collins, who died relatively unknown but has been championed in recent years, is a grab bag of letters, diary entries, short stories, plays and screenplays.
By Parul Sehgal
In his new book, “Let Me Finish,” the former governor of New Jersey and Trump adviser saves his fire for Steve Bannon, and rues what might have been.
By Dwight Garner
In “The World According to Fannie Davis,” Bridgett M. Davis offers an absorbing portrait of her mother, who ran an underground numbers operation in Detroit for more than 30 years.
By Jennifer Szalai
Yiyun Li began writing her latest novel, “Where Reasons End,” in the months after her teenage son committed suicide in 2017.
By Parul Sehgal
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