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When a Woman Turns into a Wife
Jenessa Abrams reviews Sarah Manguso’s “Liars” in the wake of Andrea Skinner’s revelation about her sexual abuse and her mother Alice Munro’s silence.
Criticism
The All-Too-Human Flesh of It
A look at the South’s racial bias is not completely free of bias itself, says Bill Thompson, reviewing Pete Candler’s “A Deeper South.”
No Justice, No Peace
Arvind Dilawar reviews Qamar-ul Huda’s “Reenvisioning Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution in Islam.”
Lush, Reciprocal Entanglements
Manjula Martin explores the hidden costs and radical potential of humanity’s enduring hobby in Olivia Laing’s “The Garden Against Time.”
Integral Witnesses
Renee Hudson reviews Eliana Hernández-Pachón’s “The Brush” and Selva Almada’s “Not a River.”
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From the Archive
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How Trump Won, Part 57
Donald Trump harnessed racial resentment to win the presidency, and it gets abundant statistical treatment in a new book.
A Dog-Eat-Dog World
Gisela Salim-Peyer reviews Rodrigo Blanco Calderón’s “Simpatía” in advance of the Venezuelan elections.
To Write as They Played
Sarah Moorhouse reviews Susan Tomes’s new collective biography, “Women and the Piano: A History in 50 Lives.”
When a Woman Turns into a Wife
Jenessa Abrams reviews Sarah Manguso’s “Liars” in the wake of Andrea Skinner’s revelation about her sexual abuse and her mother Alice Munro’s silence.
A Treasure Trove of Suppressed Feeling
Rob Latham reviews Peter Bush’s new translation of Honoré de Balzac’s novel “The Lily in the Valley” for NYRB Classics.
The Season of Lost Souls
Hamilton Cain reviews the prolific Irish author Kevin Barry’s new literary Western, “The Heart in Winter.”
America’s War on Theater
Daniel Blank reviews James Shapiro’s “The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War.”
When Not Every Second Counts
In the latest installment of Screen Shots, Michael Szalay reviews season three of FX’s “The Bear.”
Meeting as Wonderstruck Kin
Marissa Grunes reviews Renée Bergland’s “Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.”
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