3+ week, 2+ day ago   (478+ words) Every week, the critics and editors at The New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from literary fiction and serious nonfiction to thrillers, romance novels, fantasies, mysteries and everything in between....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (287+ words) Brace yourselves, BookTok: Bestselling romantasy author Sarah J. Maas just dropped the titles and covers for the sixth and seventh “A Court of Thorns and Roses” books. Maas scrubbed her Instagram of all previous posts for the big reveal, and digital…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (494+ words) About a third of the way through Katy Simpson Smith’s philosophical and disarmingly dishy new novel, one of its two heroines, Leonie, decides against having a one-night stand. She’s not going to “burrow” into some guy’s “psyche for the pleasure…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (127+ words) First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic’s Books section: Marlon James Returns to Realism, and to Jamaica In his new novel, gay men struggle to escape violence in Kingston. From our list: What’s the one book that explains…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (525+ words) I could not finish “Demon Copperhead.” I love Kingsolver’s other books, but this one was just relentless trauma, bleakness, heartbreak. Several of my friends agree, but have urged me to finish it. I just can’t. — Terri Ann Pollock, Seattle The…...