New York Stories: Debra Jo Immergut's 'You Again' And Caroline Leavitt's 'With Or Without You'

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new novels that manage to capture the current cultural zeitgeist: Memorial by Bryan Washington, and Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two new books that provide windows into the real lives of two very different women: Golem Girl by Riva Lehrer and Like Love by Michele Morano.

American identity is often complex, and sometimes, hyphenated. On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review Chinese-American author Susie Yang's White Ivy and Pakistani-American playwright Ayad Akhtar's Homeland Elegies.

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews three books by one of her favorite authors, Curtis Sittenfeld: Rodham, Eligible, and American Wife. 

On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two novels about the characters and secrets of small towns with big stories: The Cold Millions by Jess Walter, and The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross.