A vanishing bride, a billionaire’s confession, and a spy who can’t stay retired — Daniel Silva’s twenty-sixth Gabriel Allon novel opens with a disappearance and doesn’t let go until it has rewired the reader’s sense of who the real villain is. The setup is deceptively simple. Alice Winter, the much-younger
Somewhere between prestige satire and beach-read wish-fulfillment sits “Yesteryear,” Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel and the season’s unlikely publishing phenomenon. It takes a premise that could have been a single viral tweet — what if a “tradwife” influencer actually had to live the life she performs online — and stretches
Every losing side in politics eventually produces a book asking the same question: what went wrong, and what do we do differently next time? “The Day After: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World” is Brian Tyler Cohen’s entry into that genre, and it arrives with a bluntness that’s
There is a particular kind of political book that arrives less like reporting and more like an X-ray — you already knew the body was there, but now you can see the shape of every bone. “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” is that kind of book.
A decade after it first hit shelves, “The Mistake” is still doing exactly what it was built to do: making readers fall for a hockey player they have every reason to be annoyed with. The second book in Elle Kennedy’s Off-Campus series has become one of the defining texts of
Michael Connelly has spent decades proving he can do the LAPD procedural better than almost anyone alive, so it says something that his most interesting work right now is happening somewhere the LAPD barely reaches at all. “Ironwood” is the second entry in his Catalina series, and it confirms that
Some sequels tread water. This one sets the water on fire. “The Ballad of Falling Dragons” picks up the story Sarah A. Parker began in “When the Moon Hatched” and pushes it somewhere darker, bigger, and considerably more heartbroken, and readers who fell for the first book’s blend of dragon-riding
Ray Carney has spent two books trying to walk the line between respectable furniture salesman and quietly excellent fence, and “Cool Machine” finally makes him choose. Colson Whitehead closes out his Harlem Trilogy with the novel that has the most reason to feel like a victory lap and instead delivers
A decade after its release, “The Body Keeps the Score” still shows up on hospital reading lists, therapist waiting-room shelves, and TikTok book hauls alike, which is a strange kind of longevity for a book built on neuroscience footnotes. Bessel van der Kolk’s central claim is deceptively simple: trauma isn’t
Most political books arrive with a diagnosis and no prescription. Ben Wikler’s “This Is the Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy” flips that formula, and the result reads less like a lament and more like a field manual written by someone who has actually won a few
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