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Owen Freeman Female Spies and Their Secrets
An old-boy operation was transformed by women during World War II, and at last the unsung upstarts are getting their due.
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Daan Brand / Bransch Eat Food. All the Time. Mostly Junk.
How the “food revolution” turned us into snackers, guaranteeing the demise of healthy home cooking
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Henry Holt and Co. / art_of_sun / shutterstock ... Trust Exercise Is an Elaborate Trick of a Novel
Susan Choi’s taut, drama-school narrative asks: Where does art end and reality begin?
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Soho Press Science Fiction’s Preoccupation With Privacy
Two ambitious new novels build techno-futures in which surveillance offers disturbing new threats.
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Flip Schulke Archives / Mirrorpix / Arsh Raziuddin ... Art After Sexual Assault
Siri Hustvedt’s new novel explores fiction’s role in feminist consciousness-raising.
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Riverhead A Gilded Cage
A daughter explores the dark secrets of a family legacy.
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François Mori / AP The Indelible Awfulness of E. L. James’s The Mister
The author’s follow-up to her Fifty Shades series is hopelessly retrograde and dismally unentertaining.
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Manny Carabel / Getty / Matt Artz / ... How to Belong in America
The Pulitzer finalist Laila Lalami’s latest novel traces the story of one immigrant family and the seemingly inexplicable tragedy that ruptures it.
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Katherine Lam The Death of the Pioneer Myth
A remarkable novel, Lost Children Archive, and a work of history, The End of the Myth, reckon with a walled border.
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Penguin Press How to Write Poetry About Conflict
In the late ’70s, Carolyn Forché traveled to El Salvador on the eve of its civil war, knowing little about the country. Crucially, she understood how little she knew.
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Kim Ryu Amy Hempel Is the Master of the Minimalist Short Story
Amy Hempel’s best short stories reveal how rich spareness can be.
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Julien Pacaud Psychiatry’s Incurable Hubris
The biology of mental illness is still a mystery, but practitioners don’t want to admit it.
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Simon & Schuster Brain Surgery, Up Close
Watching a neurosurgeon at work is awe- and cringe-inducing.
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Pablo Cozzaglio / AFP / Getty How Climate Change Has Influenced Travel Writing
A new book from Barry Lopez underscores how the genre has evolved as planetary conditions have worsened.
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Catapult The Strange Beach Novel That Would Make Mallarmé Proud
Chloe Aridjis’s Sea Monsters doesn’t care much for plot, instead seductively gathering energy through images, repetition, and metaphor.
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Viking What Medical School Doesn’t Teach About Death
A palliative-care doctor learns the language of suffering and the limits of medical control.
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Denise Nestor John Roberts’s Biggest Test Is Yet to Come
The chief justice writes fiercely conservative opinions, yet champions the Court’s political independence. How will he respond to a constitutional crisis?
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Christian Northeast The Bitter Origins of the Fight Over Big Government
What the battle between Herbert Hoover and FDR can teach us
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Najeebah Al-Ghadban Hollywood’s Secret History of Sexuality
David Thomson’s fascinating, and frustrating, tour of gay subversion and female oppression in American movies
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Jeffrey McWhorter / AP Closing the Gulf Between Black and White Christians
In a new book, a black evangelical challenges his white counterparts to take full responsibility for their complicity in racism, and to commit to changing America.
