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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Kurt Andersen’s “Fantasyland” argues that alternative facts are baked into the American character.
By HANNA ROSIN
Buruma has officially begun his tenure at the intellectual magazine, taking over from Robert Silvers, who died in March after having edited it since 1963.
By JOHN WILLIAMS
In “A Disappearance in Damascus,” the journalist Deborah Campbell searches for her guide, an Iraqi refugee.
By SCOTT ANDERSON
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.”
Novels, graphic and otherwise, about the world at war, life with no future and imagined universes.
By N.K. JEMISIN
In “Enraged,” Emily Katz Anhalt shows how the earliest works of Western literature questioned the values of the society that produced it.
By MARY BEARD
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
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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Ben Blum tries to get to the bottom of his cousin’s participation in an armed bank robbery.
By JENNIFER SENIOR
Ward’s third novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” follows a tender teenager and his drug-addicted mother on a road trip.
By PARUL SEHGAL
Rushdie’s 13th novel is exhausting, but it’s a treat when focused on a villain who resembles Donald Trump.
By DWIGHT GARNER
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.
By JENNIFER SENIOR
In Gabriel Tallent’s debut novel, a remarkably self-sufficient 14-year-old girl must try to survive her survivalist father.
By PARUL SEHGAL