Fiction
Competing Scientists Plus a High-Stakes University Lab Equals Murder
Megan Abbott’s dark, swampy new novel, “Give Me Your Hand,” is lit by a current of rage.
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Megan Abbott’s dark, swampy new novel, “Give Me Your Hand,” is lit by a current of rage.
By RUTH WARE
A small storefront in Manhattan houses a very deep knowledge of a very narrow subject: books about food.
By JULIA MOSKIN
The novelist Karin Slaughter, whose thriller “Pieces of Her” will be published in August, says school contests made her an insatiable reader: “I’m incredibly competitive, so perhaps my early reading passion came from wanting to humiliate my closest reading rivals by volume.”
Lawrence Osborne’s novel “Only to Sleep” jolts Raymond Chandler’s P.I. out of his quiet Mexican lair and back into the world of scams and seductions.
By LAURA LIPPMAN
Marilyn Stasio’s Crime column features a “bitter as hell” ex-con, a homicidal professor, a near-mad narrator, and a soldier of fortune turned beach bum.
By MARILYN STASIO
13 authors recommend the most frightening books they’ve ever read.
Horror stories about children guilty of murderous misdeeds are perennially popular. Ruth Franklin considers what the genre tells parents about their own fears.
By RUTH FRANKLIN
Margalit Fox talks about “Conan Doyle for the Defense,” and Tina Jordan discusses this season’s thrillers.
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
In this surprising and mesmerizing book, Allie Rowbottom, a descendant of the Jell-O fortune, weaves together memoir and the story of the classic American brand.
By JENNIFER SZALAI
Thomas Clerc’s “Interior” is a tour of all the objects in the experimental writer’s 50-square-meter Paris apartment.
By PARUL SEHGAL
“Candy,” the satirical sex novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg now available in a new anniversary edition, wages guerrilla war on prudery.
By DWIGHT GARNER
In “The Fall of Wisconsin,” Dan Kaufman shows how the Tea Party’s philosophy has triumphed in a state long known for its progressive traditions.
By JENNIFER SZALAI
Daniel Gumbiner’s debut, “The Boatbuilder,” features an opioid addict who discovers the pleasures of physical labor.
By JOHN WILLIAMS