The Shortlist
New Novels About Family Ties (and Their Many Hazards)
Books by Elvira Lindo, Blair Hurley, Ramona Ausubel and Nathacha Appanah take on crises of kinship.
By Mike Peed
Mike Peed
Mike Peed is an editor at The New York Times. Previously, he worked at The New Yorker. An article he wrote for that magazine on a blight destroying the world’s banana crops was cited by the Best American Science and Nature Writing series. He has also edited at Men’s Journal, and he began his career at National Journal, in Washington.
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The ShortlistStories of Survival, in the Wilds, in Cities and at Home
Three new story collections explore the vagaries of daily struggles.
By Mike Peed
Children’s BooksPride at the Plate for a Little League All-Star
In Phil Bildner’s “A High Five for Glenn Burke,” the inventor of the world’s most popular celebratory gesture helps a budding baseball player accept himself for who he is.
By Mike Peed
The ShortlistShrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful
Four collections, in settings that range from Glasgow to an island in the Pacific Northwest, sketch troubled lives and a yearning for better times.
By Mike Peed
The ShortlistIn Three New Novels, Summer Escapes Prove Illusory
Three novels show that summer escapes, whether to seaside cottages or the great cities of Europe, rarely avoid the turmoil their characters have fled.
By Mike Peed
The ShortlistFamilies in Fiction
Four new novels introduce readers to the multigenerational struggles of fictional families.
By Mike Peed
‘A Place Called Winter,’ by Patrick Gale
An Edwardian man is sent into exile on the Canadian plains when his secret gay life is exposed.
By Mike Peed
‘The Brethren,’ by Robert Merle
“The Brethren," published in France in 1977, is the first of 13 volumes detailing more than a century of French history and known as “Fortunes of France.”
By Mike Peed
The ShortlistHistorical Fiction
New books by Jessie Burton, Alix Christie, Rosie Thomas and Katy Simpson Smith.
By Mike Peed
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