Book Reviews

OLD GOD’S TIME, by Sebastian BarryThe opening of Sebastian Barry’s new novel, “Old God’s Time,” invites us to imagine we are at the start of a detective story. One detective,...

Europa Editions hide caption toggle caption Europa Editions Valérie Perrin's novels have been enormously popular in her native France, and it's no wonder. Forgotten on Sunday, her third to be...

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie The year 1989 was a pivotal one in the spread of freedom. Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, the electoral victory of the Solidarity...

We chose the 10 best thrillers of 2023. See the complete list.I want a novel filled with jaw-dropping twists and turnsBig Time, by Ben H. WintersThis weird and wonderfully cautionary...

THE title of Bishop Laurie Green’s new autobiography, Jesus and Jellied Eels, is an apt symbol of the tensions and differences that his life’s story reconciles into an unified and...

Adolescence can be a tangled web, fraught with body changes and new desires — the world outside moving fast and slow at the same time.I think of the Carol Ann...

No Bullet Got Me Yet is a collection of letters written by, to and about Emil Kapaun, a Catholic priest and army chaplain in the Korean War. Archived by the Father...

There’s no Greek muse of consumerism, but shopping has provided writers with a wealth of material. Emile Zola rhapsodized on the Parisian department store in “The Ladies’ Paradise.” Edith Wharton’s...

The setting of Teddy Wayne’s sixth novel, “The Winner,” is a bucolic community of mansions on the southern shore of Massachusetts. The town’s name, Cutters Neck, sounds like a warning....

I MUST BE DREAMING, by Roz ChastThere are many glorious New Yorker cartoonists, but Roz Chast has long scored highest, in my observation, on what I’ll call, with apologies to...