9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/books/review/9-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/books/review/9-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html
By Marie Myung-Ok Lee The latest fiction from Nic Stone, Elizabeth Wein, David Yoon and Arvin Ahmadi. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/books/review/young-adult-crossover-fiction.html
By Jennifer Szalai In his new book, Tom Vanderbilt says that our culture is so caught up in work and ambition that “we’re afraid of …
By Bernard Schwartz Nabokov left a butterfly, Roxane Gay drew an elephant and Isabel Allende offered a caricature of herself — a few gems hidden …
By Sebastian Modak New fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Barack Obama’s accent game, a Wilco frontman’s memoir and romance by Vonnegut. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/books/review/audiobooks-to-get-you-through-the-most-distracted-of-times.html
By Olivia Waite There’s something for everyone in these intelligent, offbeat happily-ever-afters. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/books/review/new-romance-rebekah-weatherspoon.html
By Penelope Green His darkly comedic stories explored the experiences of Cambodian-Americans. His first book, the subject of a bidding war, is to be published …
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/books/review/11-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html
“The written word is tough.” Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/books/review/jerry-seinfeld-by-the-book-interview.html
By Elisabeth Egan The voice behind hundred of audiobooks speaks out about what inspires her. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/books/review/delia-owens-where-the-crawdads-sing.html
By Vivian Marino Literary fans and celebrities who starred in Tolkien films start a crowdfunding campaign to preserve the house. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/realestate/tolkien-house-sale-oxford.html
By Katherine Cusumano and Emma Grillo This week, listen to the music of Billie Holiday, attend a fashion workshop or get your tarot cards read. …
By Jody Rosen In “The National Road,” Tom Zoellner set out to discover what connects us as Americans at a time when divisions run deep. …
By Jennifer Krauss Six new paperbacks to check out this week. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/books/review/new-paperbacks.html
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/books/review/walt-whitman-parenting-books-and-other-letters-to-the-editor.html
By Dalmeet Singh Chawla They can’t detect all conflicts, but new computer programs serve as guard rails when scientists and publishers fail to self-police. Source:: …
By The Associated Press In two books, she described Sammy Davis Jr.’s negligent parenting but also celebrated the intimate moments she shared with him toward …
A.O. Scott talks about Williams’s fiction, and Nicholas Christakis discusses his new book about the coronavirus, “Apollo’s Arrow.” Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/20/books/review/podcast-joy-williams-ao-scott-apollos-arrow-coronavirus-nicholas-christakis.html
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/books/review/12-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html
By Alexandra Alter The autobiographical novel, about the lonely gay son of an alcoholic mother in 1980s Scotland, was one of four debut books in …
An excerpt from “Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West,” by Lauren Redniss Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/books/review/oak-flat-a-fight-for-sacred-land-in-the-american-west-by-lauren-redniss-an-excerpt.html
An excerpt from “The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State,” by Declan Walsh Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/books/review/the-nine-lives-of-pakistan-dispatches-from-a-precarious-state-by-declan-walsh-an-excerpt.html
By Wadzanai Mhute Tsitsi Dangarembga’s debut novel, “Nervous Conditions,” made her part of the African literary canon. Decades later, “This Mournable Body” has made her …
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/books/review/9-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html
An excerpt from “Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life,” by Katherine E. Standefer Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/books/review/lightning-flowers-my-journey-to-uncover-the-cost-of-saving-a-life-by-katherine-e-standefer-an-excerpt.html
An excerpt from “Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood,” by Christa Parravani Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/books/review/loved-and-wanted-a-memoir-of-choice-children-and-womanhood-by-christa-parravani-an-excerpt.html
By Charles Yu In Lethem’s new novel, “The Arrest,” a visitor upends the pastoral, postapocalyptic lives of a farming community in Maine. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/books/review/jonathan-lethem-arrest.html
By Dwight Garner Hilary Holladay’s biography examines the upbringing, poems, and political and sexual awakenings of the vital and influential writer. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/books/review-power-of-adrienne-rich-biography-hilary-holladay.html
By Marilyn Stasio Not much frightens Marilyn Stasio — except, as she admits in her new crime fiction column, eerie old dolls. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/books/review/crime-fiction-charlie-donlea-suicide-house.html
Ernest Freeberg talks about “A Traitor to His Species,” and the illustrator Christian Robinson discusses his career in picture books. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/books/review/podcast-traitor-to-his-species-animal-rights-ernest-freeberg-christian-robinson.html
By Elizabeth A. Harris Don’t expect the usual bromides about hard work and resilience in “One Life.” The soccer star’s memoir gets into her political …
By Robert Gottlieb On the 150th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s death, Robert Gottlieb considers a new book, “The Mystery of Charles Dickens,” by A.N. Wilson, …
By Jennifer Szalai In this book of essays, a finalist for a National Book Award, Jerald Walker writes that racism is “the great American disease …
“It’s done so much damage in fashioning savage notions of Africa.” Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/books/review/michael-eric-dyson-by-the-book-interview.html
By Elisabeth Egan Oblong Books is closed to the public, but star power helps keep the lights on in the Hudson Valley’s literary hub. Source:: …
By Charles McGrath In his new biography, “Cross of Snow,” Nicholas A. Basbanes makes a case for the man and the poet. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/books/review/cross-of-snow-a-life-of-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-nicholas-a-basbanes.html
By A.O. Scott In his first installment of a new series on overlooked or under-read American writers, A.O. Scott, a critic at large for The …
By Penelope Green After lifting herself up, she poked fund at the motivational industry while promoting her own brand of self-fulfillment in workshops and popular …
By Michiko Kakutani In this time of crisis, Michiko Kakutani writes, we are reminded that literature provides historical perspective, connecting us with others who lived …
Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/books/review/is-physics-on-the-wrong-track-and-other-letters-to-the-editor.html
By Roberta Smith The first monograph of a painter’s painter brings a jolt of new insight and a confident show of her works’ mindfulness and …
By Alexis Soloski The actor, who plays twin brothers in this new HBO series, and the director Derek Cianfrance discuss why this dark story of …
By Gal Beckerman In quarantine, people are inadvertently exposing their reading habits — embarrassing, surprising and impressive. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/books/celebrity-bookshelves-tv-coronavirus.html
By Dwight Garner Lawrence Wright’s “The End of October” is about the scientific challenge, political turmoil and social horror of a pandemic. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/books/review-end-of-october-lawrence-wright.html
By Jake Nevins Until recently, gay literary characters had to hide their identities. But even now the closet — and the lies and concealment it …
By Joumana Khatib A father-son love story, a memoirist’s account of her first affair and a journalist’s chronicle of the life of Picasso’s lover through …
By Jennifer Krauss Six new paperbacks to check out this week. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/books/review/new-paperbacks.html
By Tina Jordan and Elisabeth Egan A few suggestions for how readers can take these unusual circumstances one day — and one book — at …
By Christine Hauser Eight of the 10 titles identified in the American Library Association’s annual ranking of the most frequently banned or protested books featured …
By Sam Roberts An author and longtime professor at Rutgers, she pressed for the inclusion of black authors in curriculums and was an expert on …
By Parul Sehgal In “On Vanishing,” Lynn Casteel Harper argues that society needs a better approach to understand and care for people who are suffering …
An excerpt from “How to Pronounce Knife,” by Souvankham Thammavongsa Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/books/review/how-to-pronounce-knife-by-souvankham-thammavongsa-an-excerpt.html
An excerpt from “The Moment of Tenderness,” by Madeleine L’Engle Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/21/books/review/the-moment-of-tenderness-by-madeleine-lengle-an-excerpt.html
By The New York Times Our favorite releases of the season, selected by Food reporters and editors from The New York Times. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/dining/best-cookbooks-coronavirus.html
By Sam Roberts She supported civil rights, but later, with her husband, Stephan, concluded that colorblind policies worked better than preferential treatment. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/us/abigail-thernstrom-dead.html
By Sam Roberts He wielded his pencil at Random House for more than 50 years, nurturing the writing of Seymour Hersh, Neil Sheehan, Pete Dexter …
By Raphael Minder He best-known work was “The Old Man Who Read Love Stories.” Mr. Sepúlveda was among the first people in Spain hospitalized with …
By Stacey Stowe Police were leading an extensive search for Mr. Beard, who disappeared on March 31. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/arts/design/peter-beard-found-montauk.html
By Ruth Franklin His latest book, the novella collection “If It Bleeds,” offers the familiar unsettling pleasures. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/books/review/stephen-king-if-it-bleeds.html
By John Williams The journalist Eva Holland’s new book is an intimate and wide-ranging look at fears and trying to overcome them. Source:: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/books/nerve-science-fear-eva-holland-interview.html