Harmony Becker, author of “Himawari House,” shares her recommendations of manga that teens will enjoy.
Using journals left behind by his idol and mentor, Daniel Wallace tries to make sense of the inexplicable.
In his novel “The Only Daughter,” the late Israeli writer urges a return to the moral values learned in youth.
Plus: Recommendations from the Book Review poetry editor Greg Cowles
The Colombian novelist mixed fiction and fact to capture the outsize reality of Latin America. Even if you’ve never watched a priest levitate, a carpet fly or a drop of blood climb over curbs, there’s something for you.
A selection of recently published books.
Two translations bring canonical works by Mário de Andrade into English, allowing a glimpse into the author’s “problematic sense of belonging.”
England’s first foray into India, as Nandini Das details in “Courting India,” was far from successful.
A Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s hit novel gives voice and agency to a historical character we know little about.
Bea Wolf is a sugar-hyped, nap-deprived, battle-ready child; Mulysses is a mule.
A new book asks: To whom do the surviving remnants of the Jewish artist’s output — including murals he was forced to paint for a Nazi’s home — belong?
Two translations bring canonical works by Mário de Andrade into English, allowing a glimpse into the author’s “problematic sense of belonging.”
Zadie Smith brings her first play, an adaptation of Chaucer’s the Wife of Bath tale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
No stranger to blue-collar work herself, she pushed for equality in male-dominated unions and as a writer chronicled the struggles of “sisters in the brotherhoods.”
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Sally Bedell Smith’s “George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Shaped the Monarchy” explores a wholly different epoch in the Windsor saga.
A book that proposed violent action in response to the climate crisis becomes a propulsive heist thriller.
When she met with possible collaborators to talk about her memoir, the Olympic runner had her sights trained on one who would listen.
“I queued up to get his autograph with nothing but a dollar bill for him to sign,” says the pop star, whose debut novel is “This Bird Has Flown.” “He glanced up, amused, gave me a mischievous half-smile and said, ‘Ah, defacing U.S. currency,’ and proceeded to sign it.”
Illumination is no one-way street.
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