Fiction
A Refugee Crisis in a World of Open Doors
In Mohsin Hamid’s novel “Exit West,” refugees flee war and chaos through any door they can find.
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In Mohsin Hamid’s novel “Exit West,” refugees flee war and chaos through any door they can find.
By VIET THANH NGUYEN
Atwood on whether her dystopian classic is meant as a “feminist” novel, as antireligion or as a prediction.
By MARGARET ATWOOD
What makes Diane Johnson such a lively travel companion in these stories is that, for the most part, she detests traveling.
By DWIGHT GARNER
“Divided We Stand” by Marjorie J. Spruill recalls a 1977 women’s rights conference that ended up energizing the anti-feminist opposition.
By GILLIAN THOMAS
In “Can’t Just Stop,” the journalist Sharon Begley looks at the science behind procrastinating, self-sabotaging and self-destructiveness.
By SETH MNOOKIN
“Ties,” translated by Jhumpa Lahiri, is the most emotionally powerful novel by Domenico Starnone, the least internationally known of Italy’s leading novelists.
By RACHEL DONADIO
Mohsin Hamid talks about his new novel, “Exit West,” and Gillian Thomas discusses Marjorie J. Spruill’s “Divided We Stand.”
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Space oddities abound in Jaroslav Kalfar’s debut novel, as a Czech astronaut is sent to a mysterious cloud of dust swept in from a neighboring galaxy.
By JENNIFER SENIOR
“You Say to Brick,” a biography by Wendy Lesser, examines Kahn’s life and buildings.
By DWIGHT GARNER
Containing two excerpts from her notebooks dating to the 1970s, this book uncannily sheds light on some of the divisions splintering America today.
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Benjamin Reiss’s historical overview of mankind’s slumber habits (or lack thereof) trace a shift from a daylight-based pattern to clock-ruled routine.
By JENNIFER SENIOR
In this first novel, set in 1995, Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, falls for an older student from Hungary during her freshman year at Harvard.
By DWIGHT GARNER