By book six of any series, a story usually shows its seams. Dungeon Crawler Carl instead shows its teeth. Matt Dinniman’s latest entry drops a Coast Guard veteran, a foul-mouthed talking cat, and a cast of alien-broadcast reality-show contestants onto the eighth floor of a dungeon built to entertain a
Laverne Cox has spent more than a decade being watched — as Sophia Burset on “Orange Is the New Black,” as the first openly transgender person nominated for a major acting Emmy, as a fixture of red carpets and cable news panels alike. In “Transcendent,” she turns the camera around.
John Grisham has spent nearly four decades teaching readers how the American legal system can be bent, exploited, and occasionally redeemed. With The Widow, he tries something he has rarely attempted in all that time: a genuine whodunit, told from inside the mind of a man who insists he didn’t
Every so often a manga arrives with art so meticulous it feels like it belongs in a museum rather than a monthly serialization, and “Witch Hat Atelier” is exactly that kind of arrival. Kamome Shirahama’s series has spent years climbing bestseller charts on the strength of word of mouth alone,
Some novels announce their ambition on the first page and then spend hundreds of pages proving they earned it. “The Covenant of Water” is one of them. Abraham Verghese, a physician as much as a novelist, has built a multigenerational saga so patient and so humane that its considerable length
There is something almost comforting about a stock market crash ninety-six years in the past, until you start reading Andrew Ross Sorkin’s account of it and realize how much of it you recognize. Giddy speculation, borrowed money chasing stocks nobody can quite explain the value of, financiers insisting this time
Somewhere between the ninth rereading of a coworker’s slightly clipped email and the third sleepless night spent replaying a conversation that ended twelve hours ago, most readers of “Stop Letting Everything Affect You” will recognize themselves. That is precisely the audience Daniel Chidiac is writing for: the chronic overthinker, the
Ten years after its original release, Elle Kennedy’s “The Deal” is still doing brisk business on the bestseller lists, a milestone that says as much about the staying power of a well-built sports romance as it does about the Amazon Prime adaptation currently pulling new readers toward the source material.
Every conversion story needs a villain, and for J.D. Vance the villain is his own younger self: the restless Ohio State undergraduate, the Yale Law student chasing prestige, the Marine who came home from Iraq with more doubt than he left with. “Communion” is Vice President Vance’s attempt to explain
Most business books tell you to satisfy the customer. Will Guidara’s “Unreasonable Hospitality” argues that satisfaction is the floor, not the ceiling, and that the real competitive advantage lies in the space between what a customer expects and what you’re actually capable of giving them. Guidara spent years as co-owner
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