The editors of The New York Times Book Review bring you cross-genre fantasy books , our favorite recent romantasy reads , ...

A collection of autobiographical sketches; a complicated Japanese mystery.

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This week’s offerings include a poetry collection and a remarkably cleareyed memoir by a survivor of sexual abuse, along with a bounty of good fiction by Amity Gaige, David Szalay, Allison Epstein and ...

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Jones’s roaring debut novel, first published in 1983, is a tour of the bad ol’ days of New York City and Detroit, with a ...

After he and his brother join them in New York, the novel opens out into a more conventional consideration of rootlessness ...

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Sara Gran — whose 2003 novel of demonic possession, “Come Closer,” is a cult favorite — recommends her favorites.

By Leonard S. Marcus Laurie Halse Anderson returns to the Revolutionary War era with a timely new novel for young readers. By Avi In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised ...