Book Reviews

Hot Stuff: Spring 2024 romance novels bring sibling bonds to the forefront
Hot stuff: The 6 best romance novels of summer 2023
Hot stuff: The 8 best romance novels of spring 2023
Hot stuff: The 5 best winter romance novels to keep the season of love going
The best books of 2022
Hot Stuff: This fall's seven best romance novels are welcome emotional detours
Fairy Tale review: Stephen King's epic story takes an unexpected turn
Hot Stuff: The summer's 8 best romance novels are thrilling, fun, and resonant romps
Michael Mann's Heat 2 novel ups the temperature
The Candy House review: Jennifer Egan returns with a chaotic, wonderful Goon Squad sequel
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama review: Bob Odenkirk reflects on the laughs and lows of his career
Hot Stuff: Winter romance novels revel in reality TV competitions and questions of identity
The Winter Thriller Guide: 8 books to keep you page-turning all season long
The Center Will Still Hold: On the enduring legacy of Joan Didion
The 10 best romance novels of 2021
The 10 best books of 2021
Hot Stuff: Fall romance novels offer hot monks, witchcraft, reality TV, and Keanu Reeves
The Sentence review: Louise Erdrich captures the quietly simmering fury of summer 2020
Still Life and Five Tuesdays in Winter reviews: a set of immersive, sometimes sorrowful, tales
Men of Many Words: We read fall's weighty blockbusters so you don't have to
Dazzling prose offsets sparse surroundings in two stunning new fall novels
Hot Stuff: August's best romance novels plumb grief as a powerful point of connection
Beautiful World, Where Are You review: Sally Rooney's novel asks big questions — and doesn't always have the answers
The Turnout review: Megan Abbott explores the dark side of ballet in captivating thriller
The Startup Wife and Embassy Wife review: Both skewer marriage in their own specific, sarcastic ways
Hot Stuff: June 2021 romance novels offer pirates, gods, and Hollywood glamour
Here are the best books of 2021 (so far)
The social graces of Filthy Animals and Objects of Desire: Review
Hot Stuff: May romances kickstart summer with escapism
Hot Stuff: Unlikely connections abound in April romance novels
Hot Stew, Secrets of Happiness, and the delight of Dickensian character webs: Review
Maggie Shipstead's Great Circle puts a smartly feminist spin on old-fashioned adventure: Review
Second Place and Whereabouts tackle middle-aged malaise: Review
Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain is another dizzying, provocative investigation: Review
Brandi Carlile shares her creative hunger and humility in memoir Broken Horses: Review
Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney and Helen Oyeyemi write relationships in two starkly different but captivating ways: Review
Hot Stuff: March 2021 romance novels embrace learning to love yourself
Hunter Biden’s Beautiful Things is an unflinchingly honest look inside the First Family: Review
In The Beauty of Living Twice, Sharon Stone shares 2 life stories, of pain and healing: Review
Open Water and The Final Revival of Opal & Nev are two hot — and very lyrical — debuts: Review
Hot Stuff: February romance novels are tender and warmhearted
The Committed does loneliness in a very Viet Thanh Nguyen way: Review
A Court of of Silver Flames is a searing examination of grief and vulnerability: Review
Hot Stuff: 2021 kicks off with romances that will hit you in the feels
Milk Fed, We Run the Tides, and Fake Accounts follow wonderfully flawed female narrators: Review
The Thrill of It All: Page-turning winter books you won't be able to put down
Hot Stuff: Second chances abound in year-end romances
Hot Stuff: November romances bring mischief, star-crossed lovers, and hot dukes
Barack Obama makes his memoir worth the wait with A Promised Land: Review
Hot Stuff: October romances bring early holiday cheer
Nicole Krauss and Danielle Evans show us how to do short-story collections right: Review
Martin Amis and Don DeLillo, two literary lions, offer starkly different takes on the world: Review
Rumaan Alam goes zingy-dystopian in fall fiction breakout Leave the World Behind: Review
Hot Stuff: New fall romances range from fluffy to fiery
The Meaning of Mariah Carey is a compelling account of suffering and survival: Review
Homeland Elegies and Conditional Citizens explore life in America as an 'other'
Emma Cline's Daddy is nothing like The Girls — it might be better: Review
Don't stare straight into the Midnight Sun: Reviewing the latest Twilight novel
Two summer books tell tender tales of immigration and empathy: Review
Hot Stuff: Summer romances give love its time in the sun
Raven Leilani explores the dark side of sex and young womanhood in Luster: Review
The brutal, beautiful memoir Memorial Drive is essential reading: Review
Want and The Party Upstairs show the perils of a class-obsessed New York City: Review