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8 New Books We Recommend This Week

Miriam Toews Gets Nervous When People Assume She’s Read the Classics

She Face-Planted Into Her Salad at the Country Club. Who Killed Her?

Why Write About Pop Music? ‘I Like When People Disagree About Stuff.’

The I Survived Series is a Survivor on the Best-Seller List

Dasani Showed Us What It’s Like to Grow Up Homeless. She’s Still Struggling.

Stephanie Grisham, the Latest White House Memoirist, Offers Apologies and Payback

Newly Published, From the AIDS Crisis to Anthony Bourdain

4 New Audiobooks to Listen To This Week

Forget the ‘Hero’s Journey’ and Consider the Heroine’s Quest Instead

Phoebe Robinson’s new essay collection is a sharp, sweet-salty pleasure

I love books about books. Here are seven of my current favorites.

Washington Post hardcover bestsellers

When the Times Book Review Panned the Classics

14 New Books Coming in October

In ‘Rationality,’ Steven Pinker Sticks Up (Again) for Reason’s Role in Human Progress

10 books to read in October

Remember Elvira? The mistress of the dark is still here, and she has some bombshells to drop.

Anthony Doerr’s ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ is a convoluted love letter to books

Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’

‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ by Anthony Doerr: An Excerpt

The Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s First Novel Since 1973

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Touch of Evil

The Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s First Novel Since 1973

Humanity Is Stupid, Helpless and Possibly Worth Saving

The True Story of Robert E. Lee

From Joshua Ferris: A Father’s Scattershot Legacy, Narrated Unreliably

Jonathan Franzen’s ‘Crossroads,’ a Mellow, ’70s-Era Heartbreaker That Starts a Trilogy

Kevin Young’s Latest Poems Are at Play Among the Dead

‘Lean Fall Stand’ opens with a literal cliffhanger you won’t soon forget

In ‘Rites,’ Savannah Johnston portrays the aching, farcical nature of existence with stunning clarity

If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas.

Wole Soyinka Is Not Going Anywhere

Russ Kick, writer, editor and ‘rogue transparency activist,’ dies at 52

Charles G. Sellers, Historian Who Upset the Postwar Consensus, Dies at 98

A Journey Along the River That Separates Russia From China

Randall Kennedy on ‘Say It Loud!’

When a President Wrote for the Book Review

Word Up! Three Picture Books and a Graphic Novel Celebrate the Power and Joy of Language

Animals and humans on a collision course (sometimes literally)

How to fritter away a family fortune

A group of students, a secret tunnel and a daring escape from East Germany

Recovering from a workplace crisis, with ideas for fixing our civic crisis

Thieving monkeys and felonious caterpillars: Mary Roach’s research for ‘Fuzz’ was full of surprises

Woke academics, Donald Trump and George Will’s ire

From Anthony Doerr, an Ode to Storytelling That Shows How It’s Done

New in Paperback: ‘The Devil You Know’ and ‘The Lying Life of Adults’

The Ecstasy of Scientific Discovery, and Its Agonizing Price

Sally Rooney’s Riposte, Ralph Nader’s Candidacy and Other Letters to the Editor

8 New Books We Recommend This Week