Every week, the critics and editors at the The New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from literary fiction and serious nonfiction to thrillers, romance novels, mysteries and everything in between.
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sociology
Girls Play Dead
by Jen Piercy
Percy, a journalist and frequent New York Times Magazine contributor, draws on science, sociology, years of original reportage and her own life story to craft a gripping examination of women’s responses to sexual violence, and the nature of vulnerability. Read our review.
Memoir
Year of the Water Horse
by Janice Page
A longtime journalist who is now a culture editor at The Washington Post, Page recounts her colorful childhood in a large, rowdy and not untroubled Catholic family in Braintree, Mass.; her early struggles with an eating disorder; and her unlikely but loving marriage to a Taiwanese immigrant (they met while she was working as a waitress at what was then Braintree’s only Chinese restaurant). Read our review.
literary fiction
House of Day, House of Night
by Olga Tokarczuk
Tokarczuk, a Nobel laureate in literature, first published this book in her native Poland in 1998. It’s not so much a novel as it is an anthology of stories, poems and other short writings that are linked by a setting — a remote village on the Polish-Czech border — and an unnamed narrator. Gender-bending characters, odd neighbors and legendary saints keep readers company. Read our review.
biography
Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures
by Ted Geltner
A new biography traces the life of Denis Johnson, the brilliant nonconformist who wrote “Tree of Smoke,” “Train Dreams” and the story collection “Jesus’ Son,” which “detonated across American letters and has never really stopped detonating,” as our critic Dwight Garner put it.
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