The heroine of Roisín O’Donnell’s novel “Nesting” is a young mother desperate to escape her husband’s physical and emotional control. By Katie J.M. Baker Edmund White seems to hold ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes. By Dwight Garner Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York ...

Kari Ferrell’s memoir is a zippy, intimate account of low-level trickery before the era of scams fully erupted. Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the atrocity turns her into a ...

One of the easiest ways to get kids hooked on reading is to get them into a great book series. All it takes is a captivating Book 1, and they're off and running. Fantasy, mystery, science fiction, ...

Michelle de Kretser’s fiercely truth-seeking narrator both acts within and reports upon the shape-shifting social and academic organisms she’s part of. Alba de Céspedes’s book, a coming-of ...

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In 1967, a team including Jean-Paul Sartre put the US ‘on trial’ for its actions in Vietnam. Clive Webb’s Vietdamned surveys their efforts ...