Amanda Gorman’s ‘Call Us What We Carry: Poems’ Review
Gorman’s latest poetry collection, “Call Us What We Carry,” offers reverence and effervescence, gravity and impishness, and poems that are focused, pithy and playfully heretical.
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A Family Shatters Along With Yugoslavia
“Where You Come From,” by Sasa Stanisic, is an autobiographical novel about a life uprooted by war.
Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, ‘It’s Unreliable.’
Social-media fandom can help authors score book deals and bigger advances, but does it translate to how a new title will sell? Publishers are increasingly skeptical.
A Novel Asks: How Should a Man Write About Women?
“The Women I Love,” by Francesco Pacifico, finds a writer of bawdy satires in a more contemplative mood.
You Know About King Lear. A New Novel Tells His Banished Queen’s Tale.
In “Learwife,” J.R. Thorp explores the untold story of Lear’s queen, a tale rife with cruelty, betrayal and passion.
The Best Mystery Novels of 2021
Our crime fiction columnist picks the books that wowed her this year.
In This Novel, Art Is the Key to Another’s Consciousness
“White on White,” by Aysegul Savas, is a study of interiority told through exchanges between a scholar and a painter.
She Survived a Tough Childhood. Then She Met Jeffrey Epstein.
Sarah Ransome’s memoir, “Silenced No More,” tells the story of her imprisonment, sexual abuse and eventual escape from the clutches of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Best Thrillers of 2021
They may be (relatively) low on body counts, but the year’s most chilling, atmospheric reads will still set your pulse racing and your heart pounding.
‘The Fortune Men,’ a Novel That Remembers a Man Wrongly Sentenced to Death
Nadifa Mohamed’s third novel, shortlisted for this year’s Booker Prize, is about Mahmood Mattan, a young Somali sailor who was falsely accused of a violent murder.