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
Claudia Rankine has spent a career asking what language can hold, and her latest book, Triage, pushes that question into the most difficult territory yet: a decades-long friendship strained nearly to the breaking point by how two people respond to the same atrocities. The book centers on two women —
Some friendships start as inheritance rather than choice, formed in the gap left by absence — and Tayari Jones has built an entire novel out of that gap. Kin follows Vernice and Annie, two motherless girls raised as neighbors in the fictional town of Honeysuckle, Louisiana, whose bond forms in
Some novels ask you to see war differently. Etna asks you to smell it, track it, survive it on four legs — and the gamble pays off in ways few war novels manage. Paul Yoon’s slender new novel unfolds entirely through the perception of its title character, a sixty-seven-pound mixed-breed
What does it take to make a book about America itself feel like a page-turner? Peter Santenello, the YouTuber-turned-author whose channel has quietly built an audience of over four million people watching him talk to strangers in Amish country and coal towns, seems to have found the formula. “Your Fellow
Three books into the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, Matt Dinniman finally lets his readers in on the joke that’s been running the whole time: the dungeon isn’t just trying to kill Carl and his cat, Princess Donut — it’s trying to entertain the entire galaxy while it does it. The
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