
‘Listen, Liberal’ and ‘The Limousine Liberal’
Two new books address the disconnect between the lives of liberal elites and the people they supposedly serve.
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Two new books address the disconnect between the lives of liberal elites and the people they supposedly serve.
By BEVERLY GAGE
Found: a nearly 47,000-word journalistic series called “Manly Health and Training” that had been lost for more than 150 years.
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
Mr. Swift’s slim new novel about a young maidservant’s coming-of-age features nods and bows to “Downton Abbey” in a story of love, war and loss.
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
This new novel is populated with a large, completely believable cast of characters who lock antlers over fracking in the fictitious town of Bakerton.
By JANET MASLIN
The author of “The Round House” and, most recently, “LaRose” thinks President Obama “deserves a diverting literary read filled with witchy sex, brutal greed, dark gods and innocence.”
Real-life gangsters appear in Dan Fesperman’s dynamic novel set in New York during World War II.
By MARILYN STASIO
In the fifth volume of his autobiographical novel, Karl Ove Knausgaard struggles with shame and fear of failure.
By HARI KUNZRU
Two books turn to recent revelations in the study of animal cognition.
By JON MOOALLEM
All the lists: print, e-books, fiction, nonfiction, children’s books and more.
A debut novel about a Midwestern transplant to the South carries an echo of Walker Percy and the author’s own brand of existential despair.
By DWIGHT GARNER
In Mr. DeLillo’s latest novel, two central characters seek to conquer death not by outrunning it but by submitting to it.
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
A top-notch account of the battles between Israel’s first Lebanon War and its second, at an outpost called “the Pumpkin.”
By JENNIFER SENIOR
The fifth novel in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autobiographical “My Struggle” series closely tracks his literary apprenticeship.
By DWIGHT GARNER
Mr. Gabler, in a new book in Yale’s Jewish Lives series, explores how Barbra Streisand became one of modern culture’s defining women.
By JENNIFER SENIOR