Book Review: ‘The Faraway World,’ by Patricia Engel
The characters in “The Faraway World” seek connection in a disconnected world. Patricia Engel provides it in her own clever way.
Book Review: ’The Sense of Wonder,’ ‘Vintage Contemporaries,’ ‘All the Beauty in the World’
“The Sense of Wonder,” “Vintage Contemporaries” and “All the Beauty in the World” take on the many dramas of Gotham.
Book Review: Children’s Picture Books About Knitting, Sewing and Weaving
A boy embroiders the moon, a girl makes coats for canines and a knitted-cape crusader saves the day.
Book Review: ‘Love, Pamela,’ by Pamela Anderson
Her second memoir — about her small-town coming-of-age, her multiple traumas and Hollywood escapades — is an attempt to set the record straight.
9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Small-Town Affairs
These romance novels brim with coziness and cupcake bakeries.
R.F. Kuang Is Curious About Something …
The author of “Babel” likes to raise questions that bother her — ones she hopes will bother her readers too.
It Took Nearly 30 Years. Is America Ready for Ben Okri’s Novels?
The acclaimed Nigerian British writer is resonating with American readers in a moment of national crisis. “Maybe nations go through a time when they just can’t hear certain kinds of voices,” he said.
By the Book Interview: Patricia Engel’s Enduring Friendships Always Include Books
“It touches me when people ask me to read a book because it’s special to them,” says the fiction writer, whose new book is the story collection “The Faraway World.” “It’s like being granted permission to peek inside their soul.”
Paul La Farge, Inventive Novelist, Is Dead at 52
He played with history and narrative techniques whether writing about 19th-century France or H.P. Lovecraft.
Newly Published, From Bottled Wishes to Norman Mailer
A selection of recently published books.
Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’
Nearly six months after he was brutally attacked, Rushdie is recovering and releasing a new novel, with the literary world rallying to his side.
Book Review: ‘Against the World,’ by Tara Zahra
In “Against the World,” the historian Tara Zahra examines the promise of liberal internationalism in its early days — and the resentments and suffering it continues to incite.
Review: ‘The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America,’ by Philip Bump
With “The Aftermath,” Philip Bump marshals a sea of statistics to debunk myths about that big, self-involved and endlessly discussed postwar generation.
Victor S. Navasky, a Leading Liberal Voice in Journalism, Dies at 90
Witty and contrarian, he was the longtime editor and later publisher of The Nation and wrote an acclaimed book about the Hollywood blacklisting era.
Book Review: ‘After Sappho,’ by Selby Wynn Schwartz
“After Sappho,” Selby Wynn Schwartz’s debut novel, considers the lives of women artists and intellectuals at the turn of the 20th century.
Book Review: ‘This Other Eden,’ by Paul Harding
In his latest novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Paul Harding reimagines the history of a small mixed-race community’s devastating eviction from their homes.
Book Review: ‘The Chinese Groove,’ by Kathryn Ma.
In Kathryn Ma’s new novel, “The Chinese Groove,” an overly optimistic Chinese man migrates to America to find connection and success. It doesn’t go as planned.
Review: ‘Children of the State’ by Jeff Hobbs
“Children of the State” immerses the author Jeff Hobbs in the world of three American institutions. What he discovers is an open question.
Book Review: ‘Pirate Enlightenment: Or the Real Libertalia,’ by David Graeber
In his last book, the iconoclastic anthropologist David Graeber considers evidence that maritime outlaws created utopian political communities on the island in the Indian Ocean.
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