Domenico Starnone and Jhumpa Lahiri talk about “Ties”; Mary Otto discusses “Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America.”

'Ties' to Ferrante?

Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review, discusses this week's issue.

Arts

Literature

Performing Arts

Design

Food

Fashion & Beauty

Visual Arts

Atkinson talks about her new novel, and Shane Bauer discusses "American Prison."

Kate Atkinson on 'Transcription'

Daniel Mendelsohn discusses Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “My Struggle,” and Jill Lepore talks about “These Truths: A History of the United States.”

The End of the ‘Struggle’

Bergman talks about “Rise and Kill First,” and Felix Salmon discusses Chris Hughes’s “Fair Shot.”

Ronen Bergman on Israel’s Targeted Assassinations

Matt Young discusses “Eat the Apple,” and A. O. Scott talks about Martin Amis’s “The Rub of Time.”

'Ties' to Ferrante?

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