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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Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump
Atwood on whether her dystopian classic is meant as a “feminist” novel, as antireligion or as a prediction.
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In ‘Natural Opium,’ a Tourist Attuned to Every Indignity
What makes Diane Johnson such a lively travel companion in these stories is that, for the most part, she detests traveling.
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‘Four Days That Changed the World’: Unintended Consequences of a Women’s Rights Conference
“Divided We Stand” by Marjorie J. Spruill recalls a 1977 women’s rights conference that ended up energizing the anti-feminist opposition.
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CreditRose Wong High Anxiety: A New Approach to What Explains Compulsive Behavior
In “Can’t Just Stop,” the journalist Sharon Begley looks at the science behind procrastinating, self-sabotaging and self-destructiveness.
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Credit Domenico Starnone’s New Novel Is Also a Piece in the Elena Ferrante Puzzle
“Ties,” translated by Jhumpa Lahiri, is the most emotionally powerful novel by Domenico Starnone, the least internationally known of Italy’s leading novelists.
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The Book Review Podcast
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Mohsin Hamid talks about his new novel, “Exit West,” and Gillian Thomas discusses Marjorie J. Spruill’s “Divided We Stand.”
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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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Best Sellers
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All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times Meet an Intergalactic Spider in ‘Spaceman of Bohemia’
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.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times The Dramas and Intrigues of Louis Kahn, Monumental Architect
“You Say to Brick,” a biography by Wendy Lesser, examines Kahn’s life and buildings.
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CreditBrigitte Lacombe Past, Present and Future Collide in Joan Didion’s ‘South and West’
Containing two excerpts from her notebooks dating to the 1970s, this book uncannily sheds light on some of the divisions splintering America today.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times ‘Wild Nights’ Offers a History of Sleep (and Sleeplessness)
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.
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CreditPatricia Wall/The New York Times Review: Elif Batuman’s ‘The Idiot’ Sets a Romantic Crush on Simmer
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.
