Book Review The Fact Checker By Austin KelleyAtlantic Monthly Press: 256 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. The cover of Austin Kelley’s debut novel, “The Fact Checker,” will be immediately recognizable to a certain type of person: Ah, the New … Read more
Book Review Make Sure You Die Screaming By Zee CarlstromFlatiron Books: 224 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. Say what you will about American exceptionalism, but one thing we really are exceptional at is lying. Some lies are small, like … Read more
Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your April reading list. Spring is here, and with it come books that offer groundbreaking ideas to expand our outlook. The nonfiction crop includes an acclaimed novelist’s perspective on writing as a person of color, a searing yet carefully documented call for … Read more
On the Shelf The Talent By Daniel D’AddarioGallery/Scout Press: 336 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. The ingénue. The trainwreck. The British stage actor. The matriarch. The underdog. These are the archetypes at the heart of Variety correspondent Daniel D’Addario’s … Read more
Review Notes on Surviving the Fire By Christine MurphyKnopf: 288 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.orgwhose fees support independent bookstores. About midway through Christine Murphy’s debut novel, “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” her protagonist, Sarah Common, tells a guy she’s dating that rape-revenge … Read more
