Imagine being illegal before you’ve said your first word. That’s the premise Trevor Noah opens with in “Born a Crime,” a memoir that turns a legal technicality of apartheid South Africa into one of the most disarming coming-of-age stories published this decade. Noah, born to a Black Xhosa mother and
Some accidents never really end. They just change shape, resurfacing decades later in a museum hallway, a stray comment, a name nobody has said out loud in years. That is the quiet, devastating engine of “Whistler,” Ann Patchett’s latest novel about a family that has spent forty-five years not talking
Imagine losing your Wi-Fi, your electricity, and your century, all in the space of a single night’s sleep. That is the premise animating “Yesteryear,” Caro Claire Burke’s darkly funny debut, which drops a modern tradwife influencer into the actual 1800s and dares her to survive her own brand. Natalie Heller
In a genre dominated by listicles and life hacks, “The Courage to Be Disliked” does something almost old-fashioned: it argues its entire philosophy through a single, unbroken conversation between two people in a room, and readers can’t seem to put it down. The book is structured as five nights of
Phil Wickham has spent two decades writing worship songs that fill arenas and church sanctuaries alike, from “Battle Belongs” to “House of the Lord.” With “Everyday Hallelujah: Unlocking Deep Joy Through Everyday Acts of Worship,” he steps away from the stage to ask a quieter question: what does worship look
Alaina Urquhart spent years as a mortuary death investigator before she became one half of the hit true-crime podcast “Morbid,” and that background shows up on every page of “The Butcher Legacy,” the third installment in her Dr. Wren Muller series. This is a thriller written by someone who has
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that hits around 5:30 p.m.: the fridge stares back blankly, the group chat is no help, and takeout starts to feel like a moral failing. Caroline Chambers built an internet following on exactly that feeling, and her latest cookbook, “What to Cook When You
Everyone knows how 1929 ends. What Andrew Ross Sorkin is after in his new book is everything that made the ending feel impossible to the people living through the years leading up to it. “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History—and How It Shattered a Nation” is less
Every White House produces a first draft of history while the ink is still wet, but few get one this granular. “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” is the product of roughly a thousand interviews conducted by two of the most sourced political reporters in Washington, and
Some novels announce a crisis on page one and spend the rest of the book solving it. “The Calamity Club” does something trickier: it opens with an abandonment, a debt, and a secret, and then lets all three metastasize together until an entire Mississippi town is holding its breath. Kathryn
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