Sherry Turkle is best known for exploring the dysfunctional relationships between humans and their screens. She takes on a new focus — herself — in her memoir, “The Empathy Diaries.”
The merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster has the potential to touch every part of the industry, including how much authors get paid and how bookstores are run.
Long-awaited novels from Kazuo Ishiguro, Imbolo Mbue and Viet Thanh Nguyen, a publishing-house caper, Stephen King’s latest and more.
“He told me I was filth,” Galia Oz writes in her book, “Something Disguised as Love,” among other accusations of physical and emotional abuse. Her mother and siblings have defended their late father.
Suleika Jaouad talks about “Between Two Kingdoms,” and Jason Zinoman discusses great memoirs by comedians.
An excerpt from a new book that examines the vibrant life, and untimely death, of Glenn Burke, baseball’s first openly gay player.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
In these novels, bodies disappear, swallowed by sinkholes and forests.
In “The Committed,” a follow-up to “The Sympathizer,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s nameless spy navigates a Paris underworld rife with drug deals, violence and colonialism’s ghosts.
Fossils, flowers, galaxies and a rare “lefty” snail.
A retelling of “The Great Gatsby,” a healer fighting for her freedom and more: Here are 13 upcoming Y.A. titles you won’t want to miss this spring.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
A poem that makes you wonder: How is it a flag can divide and unite a people?
In “Four Lost Cities,” Annalee Newitz explores the fates of four cities lost to time to better understand what leads urban environments to decay.
Alex Dimitrov’s third collection, “Love and Other Poems,” delivers a burst of energy and a happy reminder of Frank O’Hara’s work.
“I don’t remember the last time the pages of a book were not the final thing I saw before departing off for sleep.”
Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade collaborated on “We Are Water Protectors.” The rest is history.
Maria Stepanova’s “In Memory of Memory” looks to the lives of her ancestors, and celebrates their very “ordinariness.”
In Jaap Robben’s “Summer Brother,” a 13-year-old finds himself the default caregiver for his severely disabled brother. His dad’s a swindler. The bills are due. Disaster is inevitable.
A psychology book by a Nobel Prize-winning author has become a must-read in front offices. It is changing the sport.
“Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us,” by Joseph Andras, revisits a thorny episode in the Algerian war of independence.
The playwright David Ives reviews Hermione Lee’s latest biography, “Tom Stoppard,” which meticulously recounts an extraordinary life.
Heather McGhee’s compassionate but cleareyed book argues that divide-and-conquer tactics have left all Americans worse off.
An unapologetic proponent of “poetry as insurgent art,” he was also a publisher and the owner of the celebrated San Francisco bookstore City Lights.
“Klara and the Sun,” the eighth novel by the Nobel laureate, portrays a near future of sinister portent, in which artificial intelligence has encroached on every sphere of human existence.
“State of Terror,” set for release in October, is about a secretary of state confronting terrorism threats and a weakened nation.
In “Flight of the Diamond Smugglers,” Matthew Gavin Frank details the surprising role pigeons play in South African diamond smuggling.
An excerpt from “The Smash-Up,” by Ali Benjamin
With his new novel, the Nobel Prize-winner reaffirms himself as our most profound observer of human fragility in the technological era.
In her new novel, “The Smash-Up,” Ali Benjamin takes readers on an exhilarating ride through a crisis propelled by real-life events.
“Tangled Up in Blue,” by Rosa Brooks, and “We Own This City,” by Justin Fenton, take readers inside two police forces (in Washington and Baltimore) to examine a complicated culture.
New books look at what it was like to be in the Roman military 2,000 years ago and in the American military today.
The protagonist of Jack Livings’s novel, “The Blizzard Party,” recalls the late-1970s blowout bash in an Upper West Side penthouse that marked her and her family forever.
“Raceless,” by Georgina Lawton, and “Surviving The White Gaze,” by Rebecca Carroll, follow two Black women who discover their racial identity after a childhood separated from their heritage.
In “Animal, Vegetable, Junk,” Mark Bittman tells the long, unfolding story of our food sources, tracking the shift from agriculture to agribusiness.
“I don’t remember the last time the pages of a book were not the final thing I saw before departing off for sleep.”
Carole Lindstrom and Michaela Goade collaborated on “We Are Water Protectors.” The rest is history.
Tanya Selvaratnam and Vanessa Springora both survived powerful, manipulative men. Now they’re telling their tales.
“Klara and the Sun,” the eighth novel by the Nobel laureate, portrays a near future of sinister portent, in which artificial intelligence has encroached on every sphere of human existence.
The protagonist of Jack Livings’s novel, “The Blizzard Party,” recalls the late-1970s blowout bash in an Upper West Side penthouse that marked her and her family forever.
Suleika Jaouad talks about “Between Two Kingdoms,” and Jason Zinoman discusses great memoirs by comedians.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
“Tangled Up in Blue,” by Rosa Brooks, and “We Own This City,” by Justin Fenton, take readers inside two police forces (in Washington and Baltimore) to examine a complicated culture.
In her new novel, “The Smash-Up,” Ali Benjamin takes readers on an exhilarating ride through a crisis propelled by real-life events.
When Suleika Jaouad was 22, she learned she had leukemia. In her memoir, “Between Two Kingdoms,” she looks back on what got her through.
Nicole Perlroth’s “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends” looks at the history of cyberattacks and why they are only likely to get worse.
In “Fundamentals,” Frank Wilczek describes his own love for physics and details what we all need to understand about the forces that shape our physical world.
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
In these novels, bodies disappear, swallowed by sinkholes and forests.
In “The Committed,” a follow-up to “The Sympathizer,” Viet Thanh Nguyen’s nameless spy navigates a Paris underworld rife with drug deals, violence and colonialism’s ghosts.
Fossils, flowers, galaxies and a rare “lefty” snail.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In “Four Lost Cities,” Annalee Newitz explores the fates of four cities lost to time to better understand what leads urban environments to decay.
Alex Dimitrov’s third collection, “Love and Other Poems,” delivers a burst of energy and a happy reminder of Frank O’Hara’s work.
In Jaap Robben’s “Summer Brother,” a 13-year-old finds himself the default caregiver for his severely disabled brother. His dad’s a swindler. The bills are due. Disaster is inevitable.
“Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us,” by Joseph Andras, revisits a thorny episode in the Algerian war of independence.
The playwright David Ives reviews Hermione Lee’s latest biography, “Tom Stoppard,” which meticulously recounts an extraordinary life.
In “Flight of the Diamond Smugglers,” Matthew Gavin Frank details the surprising role pigeons play in South African diamond smuggling.
An excerpt from “The Smash-Up,” by Ali Benjamin
New books look at what it was like to be in the Roman military 2,000 years ago and in the American military today.
“Raceless,” by Georgina Lawton, and “Surviving The White Gaze,” by Rebecca Carroll, follow two Black women who discover their racial identity after a childhood separated from their heritage.
In “Two Truths and a Lie,” “Confident Women” and “The Officer’s Daughter,” readers feel the aftershocks of felonies and malfeasances.
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
“The Bone Fire,” by Gyorgy Dragoman, follows a 13-year-old girl as she navigates political upheaval and an uncanny world.
“The Slaughterman’s Daughter,” by Yaniv Iczkovits, is a sprawling 19th-century quest narrative set in czarist Russia.
In “Ancestor Approved” and “The Sea-Ringed World,” sacred stories provide comfort by bringing people together.
