Rachel Cusk’s “Second Place,” Richard Powers’s “Bewilderment” and Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” are among the 13 novels nominated for one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards.
“Until Proven Safe,” by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, is about the lifesaving measure that has also been abused for political purposes over the centuries.
In “A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes,” Rodrigo Garcia chronicles his parents’ final days, including his celebrated father’s struggle with dementia and his mother’s fierce independence to the end.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez sees his new story collection, “Songs for the Flames,” as part of a thriving literary landscape in Colombia because, he said, “places in conflict produce fiction.”
Anthony Veasna So died before the release of his first book, “Afterparties,” but his loved ones, mentors and newfound fans are making it a particularly significant debut.
Elisabeth Egan talks about Esther Freud’s “I Couldn’t Love You More,” and Philip D’Anieri discusses “The Appalachian Trail.”
She fought anti-gay policies alongside Harvey Milk, wrote influential books, including science fiction, and founded a women-only refuge in the woods.
The beloved children’s author and illustrator died in May. But his irrepressible spirit lives on in his books.
Tomatoes and tiny travel.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Two new books, Eric Berger’s “Liftoff” and Tim Higgins’s “Power Play,” explore Musk’s terrestrial and extraterrestrial pursuits — and what has made him so successful.
Dip into these picture books about pools and beaches, swimming and sailing, calm waters and stormy seas.
In the 1940s and ’50s the Book Review’s pages were full of ads for books on the extraterrestrial and dystopian.
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Crown is publishing “Renegades: Born in the USA,” a book adaptation of the podcast conversations.
Reading Rosal’s poem again made me pull out some tajin, and slice some apples, and remember how poems create a heart’s history and remind us of home.
“Better to Have Gone,” by Akash Kapur, recounts the haunting, heartbreaking history of Auroville, an intentional community in southern India where he and his wife were raised.
In her best-selling thriller, “The Last Thing He Told Me,” a Silicon Valley wife learns the truth about her missing husband.
Glaude, the author of “Begin Again,” says that “No Name in the Street” (1972) “tries to offer an account of what happened between Little Rock, Dr. King’s assassination and the emergence of Black Power. Trauma and wound saturate his sentences, and his memory fails him in places. It is a masterpiece at the level of form and substance.”
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In her illuminating new book, Sarah Everts offers a guide to the necessity and virtues of perspiration.
Curious about creativity, she chronicled the lives of Agnes de Mille, Jacqueline du Pré, Samuel Goldwyn and Stan Kenton.
In “After Cooling,” Eric Dean Wilson explores the ways that temperature-controlled environments contribute to the climate crisis.
In “Better to Have Gone,” Akash Kapur writes about Auroville, a community in India founded by a Frenchwoman, where Kapur grew up and met his future wife.
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
An excerpt from “Virtue,” by Hermione Hoby
An excerpt from “What Strange Paradise,” by Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad’s new novel follows a young refugee who survives a shipwreck and the girl who comes to his aid.
A trapped mom turns into an angry dog by night, an atheist lesbian poses as a Catholic receptionist, a 20-year-old woman suffers through domestic abuse.
In her new novel, “Virtue,” a white, liberal 20-something is torn between elitism and activism.
In “Intimacies,” a court interpreter at The Hague grapples with the ethics of the world around her.
In Pedro Mairal’s “The Woman From Uruguay,” a plan to smuggle some money into Argentina goes disastrously awry.
“The Howe Dynasty,” by Julie Flavell, adds nuance and complexity to the story of a famous English military family by examining the extensive correspondence of one of its female members.
In John Brandon’s new novel, “Ivory Shoals,” a boy in post-Civil War Florida searches for the father he has never met.
The beloved children’s author and illustrator died in May. But his irrepressible spirit lives on in his books.
In “A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes,” Rodrigo Garcia chronicles his parents’ final days, including his celebrated father’s struggle with dementia and his mother’s fierce independence to the end.
Two new books, Eric Berger’s “Liftoff” and Tim Higgins’s “Power Play,” explore Musk’s terrestrial and extraterrestrial pursuits — and what has made him so successful.
In Nick McDonell’s new novel, humans are almost extinct. Now the animal kingdom must decide their fate.
In her new novel, “Virtue,” a white, liberal 20-something is torn between elitism and activism.
“The Howe Dynasty,” by Julie Flavell, adds nuance and complexity to the story of a famous English military family by examining the extensive correspondence of one of its female members.
Elisabeth Egan talks about Esther Freud’s “I Couldn’t Love You More,” and Philip D’Anieri discusses “The Appalachian Trail.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Glaude, the author of “Begin Again,” says that “No Name in the Street” (1972) “tries to offer an account of what happened between Little Rock, Dr. King’s assassination and the emergence of Black Power. Trauma and wound saturate his sentences, and his memory fails him in places. It is a masterpiece at the level of form and substance.”
In her best-selling thriller, “The Last Thing He Told Me,” a Silicon Valley wife learns the truth about her missing husband.
Omar El Akkad’s new novel follows a young refugee who survives a shipwreck and the girl who comes to his aid.
In “After Cooling,” Eric Dean Wilson explores the ways that temperature-controlled environments contribute to the climate crisis.
Set in a fictional Chinese city, Yan Ge’s novel features a bestiary of mysterious creatures and a cryptozoologist narrator who is trying to study and classify them.
Six new paperbacks to check out this week.
Dip into these picture books about pools and beaches, swimming and sailing, calm waters and stormy seas.
“Better to Have Gone,” by Akash Kapur, recounts the haunting, heartbreaking history of Auroville, an intentional community in southern India where he and his wife were raised.
Here’s a peek into the Book Review’s mailbag.
A selection of recent titles of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
An excerpt from “Virtue,” by Hermione Hoby
An excerpt from “What Strange Paradise,” by Omar El Akkad
A trapped mom turns into an angry dog by night, an atheist lesbian poses as a Catholic receptionist, a 20-year-old woman suffers through domestic abuse.
In “Intimacies,” a court interpreter at The Hague grapples with the ethics of the world around her.
In Pedro Mairal’s “The Woman From Uruguay,” a plan to smuggle some money into Argentina goes disastrously awry.
In John Brandon’s new novel, “Ivory Shoals,” a boy in post-Civil War Florida searches for the father he has never met.
