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The New York Times Book Review – August 6, 2023

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW – August 6, 2023 : The issue features Daniel Kraus’s new thriller, “ Whalefall ,” the story of a teenage diver inadvertently swallowed by an 80-foot whale; the reissue of Claude Anet’s provocative 1920 novel, “Ariane: A Russian Girl ”;  a biography of the Gilded Age heiress and international spy Marguerite Harrison ;  a handful of audiobook recommendations ; even  the biography of a venerable scam.  

Swallowed by a Sperm Whale, and Mourning His Father

In Daniel Kraus’s novel “Whalefall,” a teenage diver is gulped down by a 60-ton whale and must try to escape.

By  Sarah Lyall

In marine biology, a whale fall is the body of a dead whale that has slowly descended to the bottom of the ocean. Scavengers strip its flesh, crustaceans and other creatures colonize its skeleton and its decaying bones help sustain countless organisms for years to come, part of the delicate balance of the undersea ecosystem.

Talking About Love in the Afternoon, Morning, Evening and Night

Reading Claude Anet’s provocative 1920 novel “Ariane: A Russian Girl,” the reader may yearn for a little less conversation.

By Gemma Sieff

It would be nice if we had put to bed, so to speak, witless and reductive double standards about female promiscuity. Have you heard the one that goes, “A key that opens many locks is a master key, yet a lock that is opened by many keys” is … unprintably bad? Me neither — until I saw it on TikTok.

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Here Are the 10 New Books You Should Read in August

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser.

T he best way to savor the peak of summer is with a good read . This August, there are new books that offer every kind of reading experience, whether you're looking to delve into a tender romance, a razor-sharp collection of essays, or a thrilling mystery. From Ann Patchett's sparkling Tom Lake , a novel in which a mother reminisces about a long-lost summer love with her grown daughters, to Angie Kim's Happiness Falls, a mystery about a family who bands together to find their missing father, here are the best new books to read in August.

Mobility , Lydia Kiesling (Aug. 1)

Environmental anxiety is on full display in Lydia Kiesling's Mobility , which centers on the life of Elizabeth "Bunny" Glenn, whose cushioned existence from adolescence to middle age is made possible by fossil fuels. From her teenage years as the daughter of a U.S. foreign service officer stationed in Baku, Azerbaijan to her corporate ascent as a yuppie at an energy company in Texas, Bunny reckons with her reliance on resources that may cause irreparable damage to the planet.

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My Name Is Iris , Brando Skyhorse (Aug. 1)

In My Name Is Iris, Brando Skyhorse tackles the surveillance state and xenophobia in an uncomfortably familiar dystopian vision of American. For Iris, a new divorcée, life is finally beginning to look like what she dreamed for herself and her 9-year-old daughter, Melanie—that is, until a wall suddenly appears in their front yard. Soon, other things begin to give her pause, including a new wearable tech band that's withheld from her because she's second-generation Mexican. As its use becomes more prevalent and her lack of access to the tech limits her ability to travel and work, Iris must decide what measures she'll take to protect herself and her daughter.

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Tom Lake , Ann Patchett (Aug. 1)

With Tom Lake , Ann Patchett's latest family saga, a nostalgic story of summer love reveals volumes about the lives we choose. When the pandemic brings her three adult daughters home to Michigan, Lara Nelson agrees to sweeten the labor of harvesting the family farm's cherry crop by finally telling them the story of her youthful love affair with the renowned (and recently deceased) movie star Peter Duke, with whom she co-starred in a community play long before. Elaborating on a tale her daughters have only heard about in hearsay from their father, Lara's loving husband Joe, Lara revisits her past and, in doing so, affirms her present. Gorgeously rendered and gently affecting, Patchett's tale is a study in the thrills of young romance, the complex love of a marriage, and the stories we tell ourselves and others.

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The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean , Susan Casey (Aug. 1)

Journalist Susan Casey makes a case for exploring the deep sea with The Underworld, a fascinating history of mankind's journeys to the depths of the ocean and the intrepid scientists and adventurers who have devoted their lives to the work. With fastidious research on underwater archaeology and the many life forms that inhabit the sea floor and thrilling accounts of her own descents to the deep, Casey's book satisfies our greatest curiosities about the mysteries of the ocean.

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The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store , James McBride (Aug. 8)

In National Book Award-winner James McBride's novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store , the discovery of a human skeleton under the foundation of a new townhouse development reignites questions about a devastating tragedy that took place nearly five decades earlier. The year is 1972 and a dead body in Pottstown, a small, working-class town in Pennsylvania, has sent eerie reverberations through the community. The townspeople are moved to investigate a series of events that happened years earlier and involved Moshe and Chona, a Jewish couple who opened the town's first integrated dancehall and theater, and their friends and employees Nate and Addie, a Black couple who sought Moshe and Chona's help in keeping their nephew from becoming a ward of the state. A story of community, care, and the lengths to which we'll go for justice, McBride's tale is a wondrous ode to the strength of humanity in a small town.

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Prophet , Helen Macdonald and Son Blaché (Aug. 8)

Memory is one hell of a drug in Prophet , the thrilling dystopian novel from Sin Blaché and Helen Macdonald . Sunil, an M16 agent, and Adam, an American intelligence officer, are forced to team up when a series of strange events occur, including an American diner mysteriously appearing in the British countryside. Sunil and Adam's research leads them to Aurora, Colo., where they discover a new drug called Prophet, which induces fond nostalgia, but with troubling side effects: psychotic breaks and in some cases, death. After they discover Adam is immune to the drug, the pair launches into an investigation that defies reality—and brings them closer to one another than they ever anticipated.

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The Bee Sting , Paul Murray (Aug. 15)

The fascinatingly macabre details of an Irish nuclear family's turmoil after a stretch of bad luck provides ample material for Paul Murray's The Bee Sting . The drama centers on the family of Dickie Barnes, a once-prosperous cars salesman whose impending financial demise and general sense of dread lead him to build a doomsday day bunker in the woods. The rest of his family isn't faring much better—his wife, Imelda, has turned to hocking her jewelry and having illicit affairs to deal with her ennui, while his children, Cass and PJ, have turned to binge-drinking and running away from home as their solutions to their general misfortune. With dark humor and unflinching honesty, Murray paints an arresting portrait of a family that can't catch a break—but won't go down without putting up a fight.

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Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing , Jen Soriano (Aug. 22)

Nervous, Jen Soriano's debut essay collection, is a searing book that doesn't shy away from exploring the most intimate of topics. Reflecting on her upbringing as the daughter of two hardworking Filipino parents, one of whom is a neurosurgeon, Soriano mines the personal to find answers to her battle with chronic pain, exploring her childhood, her mental health struggles, and her family's legacy of intergenerational trauma along the way. From examining the horrors her grandparents experienced in the Philippines during Japanese occupation in World War II to celebrating the healing she found by doing community organizing with fellow Filipinos in San Francisco as a young adult, Soriano powerfully meditates on both pain and healing.

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The Deadline , Jill Lepore (Aug. 29)

With The Deadline , historian and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore focuses her cogent insight on the most pressing issues of the past decade in American society, seamlessly moving between the intensely personal (a friend's cancer diagnosis) to the fiercely political (the urgent gun-violence crisis and ongoing debate over gun control) with authority and acumen. From addressing the limitations of the #MeToo movement to probing the progress—and the dilemmas—brought about by the technology boom, Lepore brings wit, clarity, and necessary perspective to the biggest issues of today.

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Happiness Falls , Angie Kim (Aug. 29)

When Mia Parkson's father mysteriously disappears, there's only one person who might know what happened to him: her brother Eugene, who was the last person seen with him, but who can't speak due to Angelman Syndrome, a rare genetic condition. When it becomes clear that their father isn't returning, the family launches an investigation, with Mia, her twin brother, and their mother taking matters into their own hands. But their desperate search for answers forces them all to reckon with how they communicate with Eugene—and flips any assumptions they've made about the boy and his role in their family.

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The Best Reviewed Books of Summer 2023

Novels from colson whitehead, s.a. cosby, beatriz williams, and more..

A look at the best reviewed fiction from June, July, and August.

Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Doubleday)

“ Crook Manifesto is a dazzling treatise, a glorious and intricate anatomy of the heist, the con and the slow game. There’s an element of crime here, certainly, but as in Whitehead’s previous books, genre isn’t the point. Here he uses the crime novel as a lens to investigate the mechanics of a singular neighborhood at a particular tipping point in time. He has it right: the music, the energy, the painful calculus of loss. Structured into three time periods — 1971, 1973 and finally the year of America’s bicentennial celebration, 1976 — Crook Manifesto gleefully detonates its satire upon this world while getting to the heart of the place and its people … Whitehead bends language. He makes sinuous the sounds of a city and its denizens pushing against the boundaries. He can be mordantly funny.”

–Walter Mosley ( New York Times Book Review )

Maud Ventura (transl. Emma Ramadan), My Husband (Harpervia)

“Ventura does an excellent job of slowly escalating the narrator’s neuroses … And yet the book, while disturbing, is also very funny … Will have you thinking hard about the meaning of love.”

–Laurie Hertzel ( Star-Tribune )

Dwyer Murphy, The Stolen Coast (Viking)

“If you, like me, lament the absence in modern-day Hollywood of the whip-smart neo-noir thrillers that flourished in the 1990s…then I have great news for you. It comes in the form of Dwyer Murphy’s second novel, The Stolen Coast, which offers all the abundant pleasures of those films, and more. Of course, many of those movies, like After Dark, My Sweet and Out of Sight, were themselves based on classic noir novels, and Murphy’s follow-up to his strong debut, An Honest Living, makes a convincing case for inclusion on that shelf. It’s a twisty, enthralling heist yarn, sure, but what strikes you most is the confidence … The significant delights in “The Stolen Coast” lie not so much in how it all unfolds or unravels but in the dance between this intoxicating pair: their sly words, their weighted glances and their worthless promises.”

–Adam Sternbergh ( New York Times Book Review )

S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed   (Flatiron)

“Cosby worked the outlaw side of the crime/suspense genre. In this new one he’s written a crackling good police procedural … Cosby delivers a fine climax. Then, in an epilogue, he serves up a final treat that’s worth the whole trip. So: a well-told novel of crime and detection. There are plenty of them on the market. What sets this one apart, what gives it both grit and texture, is its unerring depiction of small-town rural life and the uneasy (and sometimes violent) interactions between Charon’s white and Black citizens … Cosby keeps his eye on the story and the pedal to the metal … I found Cosby’s detail work fresh and exhilarating. Without resorting to country music clichés, he gets everything right … It’s a far better novel than Cosby’s earlier books; his confidence as a writer has increased as he climbs the learning curve of his trade.”

–Stephen King ( New York Times Book Review )

Beatriz Williams, The Beach at Summerly (William Morrow)

“There are few more skilled practitioners of the craft of summer fiction than Beatriz Williams. Her latest is both a spy thriller and a Romeo and Juliet tale of would-be lovers torn apart by fate and circumstance … Enriched by fascinating historical details and an espionage theme … Williams has crafted a layered narrative celebrating a heroine who embodies verve, pluck and courage. Ultimately The Beach at Summerly is an ode to a season and a feeling. If our summers past represent a paradise lost, as selves that once were, or might have been, then in Williams’s pages we may briefly recapture the delicious freedom we used to feel when the days became longer and warmer, and we were young and in love.”

–Leigh Haber (New York Times Book Review)

Catherine Chidgey, Pet (Europa Editions)

“Chidgey’s examination of sexual politics is ruthless … The novel hums with the low-level fever of adolescent boredom and betrayal … Chidgey’s grasp of the slipperiness and self-delusion of memory – from Justine as an increasingly unreliable narrator, to her father’s later dementia – is faultless.”

–Catherine Taylor ( Guardian )

Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant (Knopf)

“An expertly paced psychological thriller … Seeing Aidan through the eyes of people who view him benignly, even lovingly, we feel the danger in each of this monster’s relationships and the ways in which people are blinded to it … In less capable hands, so many points of view could have felt messy and confusing; but Michallon makes deft use of this structure to build momentum toward a white-knuckle climax.”

–Jac Jemc (New York Times Book Review)

Kate Collins, A Good House for Children (Mariner)

‘It has a little bit of all things not very nice that make up a page-turning popular novel, without resorting to moral simplicity or predictability … [Collins] evokes her characters and scenes deftly. Not only that, but the whole thrust and purpose of the book add up so well, issues are handled with such lightness of touch, that this reads like a novelist in her prime, rather than a beginner.”

–Lucy Sweeney Byrne ( The Irish Times )

Chandler Baker, Cutting Teeth (Flatiron)

“Both a searing social commentary on female friendships, community ties and modern motherhood, and a riveting murder mystery, Cutting Teeth is delightfully weird, jaw-droppingly brilliant and wickedly funny.”

–Rebecca Munro ( Bookreporter )

Colin Walsh, Kala (Doubleday)

“A master class in building suspense … Walsh manages a deft balance between adolescent angst and ecstasy — discoveries bringing horror, sorrow and joy — and the more deliberate, often elegiac reflections of adulthood, reckoning with the promises of the past … With revelation upon revelation, their ordinariness seems all the more mysterious, and this first-time novelist all the more masterly at writing in such an original voice.”

–Ellen Akins ( Washington Post )

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‘NYT’ Names Its 10 Best Books of 2023

BY Michael Schaub • Nov. 28, 2023

The New York Times unveiled its list of its 10 best books of 2023, with five fiction and five nonfiction titles making the cut.

Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting , which was a finalist for this year’s Kirkus Prize and Booker Prize, made the list, with the newspaper hailing the Irish author’s “triumphant return.” Also honored was Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s Chain-Gang All-Stars , which was shortlisted for the National Book Award.

Zadie Smith’s The Fraud made the Times list, alongside North Woods  by Daniel Mason and Eastbound , written by French author Maylis de Kerangal and translated by Jessica Moore.

John Vaillant’s Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World , the winner of this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize and a National Book Award finalist, was one of the nonfiction books to appear on the Times list, along with Ilyon Woo’s Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom , another Kirkus Prize finalist.

Other nonfiction books making the cut were Jonathan Rosen’s The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions , Kerry Howley’s Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State , and Patricia Evangelista’s Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country .

Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.

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If you love the unexpected and enjoy surprises, this list will keep you on the edge of your seat! Here are some of the best of the best, when it comes to mysteries and thrillers, as recommended by The New York Times.

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.

Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad’s death by suicide the previous year.

The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid’s tentacles and drawn into the whale’s mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out—one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.

The Plinko Bounce by Martin Clark

For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts, charged with petty crimes.

Then, in the summer of 2020, he’s assigned to a grotesque murder case that brings national media focus to rural Patrick County, Virginia—Alicia Benson, the wife of a wealthy businessman, is murdered in her home. The accused killer, Damian Bullins, is a cunning felon with a long history of violence, and he confesses to the police. He even admits his guilt to Andy. But a simple typographical error and a shocking discovery begin to complicate the state’s case, making it possible Bullins might escape punishment.

Duty-bound to give his client a thorough defense, Andy—despite his misgivings—agrees to fight for a not-guilty verdict, a decision that will ultimately force him to make profound, life-and-death choices, both inside and outside the courtroom.

With its unforgettable characters, insider’s blueprint of the justice system, intricate plotting, and provocative, no-holds-barred ending, The Plinko Bounce  demonstrates once again why Martin Clark has been called “the thinking man’s John Grisham” by The New York Times and praised as “hands down, our finest legal-thriller writer” by  Entertainment Weekly .

Going Zero by Anthony McCarten

From four-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Anthony McCarten comes a breakneck, wickedly entertaining thriller for our times, a twisty, action-packed novel reminiscent of the best Michael Crichton technothrillers, in which a woman must find a way to elude the most powerful forces of government and high tech.

In the name of national security, the CIA in partnership with Silicon Valley wunderkind Cy Baxter have created the ultimate surveillance program known as FUSION. Ahead of its roll out, ten Americans have been carefully selected to Beta test the groundbreaking system.

At the appointed hour, each of the ten will have two hours to “Go Zero”—to turn their cellphones off, cut ties with friends and family, and use any means possible to disappear. They will then have 30 days to evade detection and elude the highly sophisticated Capture Teams tasked to find them using the most cutting-edge technology. The goal is to see if it is possible to successfully go “off the grid” and escape detection.

The stakes are immense. If FUSION is a success, Cy Baxter will secure a coveted 10-year, $100 billion dollar government contract and access to intelligence resources he truly believes will save lives. For any participant who beats the massive surveillance, it means a $3 million cash prize.

Among the contestants is an unassuming Boston librarian named Kaitlyn Day. She’s been chosen as the gimme, the easy target expected to be found first. But Kaitlyn excels at confounding expectations. Her talents at this particular game are far more effective than all the security experts suspect, and her reasons for playing far more personal than anyone can imagine. . . .

The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

Get ready for a thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge in Sally Hepworth’s  The Soulmate .

There’s a cottage on a cliff. Gabe and Pippa’s dream home in a sleepy coastal town. But their perfect house hides something sinister. The tall cliffs have become a popular spot for people to end their lives. Night after night Gabe comes to their rescue, literally talking them off the ledge. Until he doesn’t.

When Pippa discovers Gabe knew the victim, the questions spiral…Did the victim jump? Was she pushed?

And would Gabe, the love of Pippa’s life, her soulmate…lie? As the perfect facade of their marriage begins to crack, the deepest and darkest secrets begin to unravel.

How Can I Help You by Laura Sims

A razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined.

No one knows Margo’s real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a small town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy, congeniality, and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her sanctuary, a place to quell old urges.

That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed novelist, joins the library staff. Patricia quickly notices Margo’s subtly sinister edge, and watches her carefully. When a patron’s death in the library bathroom gives her a hint of Margo’s mysterious past, Patricia can’t resist digging deeper—even as this new fixation becomes all-consuming.

Taut and compelling,  How Can I Help You  explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession.

The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating “historical over-reaching” by the British Secret Service “to investigate historical over-reaching.” Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer—and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. 

But MI5’s formidable First Desk did not become Britain’s top spy by accident, and she has successfully thwarted the inquiry at every turn. Now the administration that created Monochrome has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust—and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects are washed away by the pounding London rain.

Until the eve of Monochrome’s shuttering, when an MI5 case file appears without explanation. It is the buried history of a classified operation in 1994 Berlin—an operation that ended in tragedy and scandal, whose cover-up has rewritten thirty years of Service history.

The Secret Hours is a dazzling entry point into Mick Herron’s body of work, a standalone spy thriller that is at once unnerving, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny. It is also the breathtaking secret history that Slough House fans have been waiting for.

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