9 New Books We Recommend This Week
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
In the Village, Another Piece of the City’s History Is Coming Down
Like other vulnerable landmarks across the city, the house at 14 Gay Street — which helped inspire the musical “Wonderful Town” — is being demolished.
What Inspires a Poet to Write a Novel? Ask Kathleen Glasgow.
After charmingly announcing that “Girl in Pieces” is a No. 1 best seller, the author opened up about why she wrote this book.
The Dinner Party Writers Dream Of
Some authors are better on the page. Others, though, promise a rollicking good time. For a decade, we’ve asked authors which writers they’d like as dining companions. Here’s what they told us.
Poem: Dootł’izh
The Navajo word can mean both green or blue. In this poem, it is perhaps a metaphor for the mixture of elusive emotions that can coexist within humans.
New Mysteries and Crime Novels
In “Blaze Me a Sun,” by Christoffer Carlsson, murders and disappearances pile up in a small Swedish town.
Read Your Way Through Edinburgh
Edinburgh calls to readers, its pearl-grey skies urging them to curl up with a book. Maggie O’Farrell, the author of “Hamnet,” suggests reading that best reflects her city.
Book Review: ‘Beaverland,’ by Leila Philip
“Beaverland,” by Leila Philip, offers an appreciative account of the North American rodent, whose habit of taking down trees and causing floods has given it a reputation as a nuisance.
Book Review: ‘Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins,’ by Aidan Levy
Aidan Levy has written a revealing, comprehensive biography of the improviser-hero Sonny Rollins.
Getting Close to Sondheim: New Books Try to Capture His Essence
Memoirs by his collaborators are among the works available now, and several others are on the horizon.
The Portrait Hung in Joan Didion’s Home. But Who Painted It?
No one in Didion’s circle knew the mysterious painting’s origin. The publicity created by an auction of her belongings brought the first clues in years — and the answer.
Essay: On Food in Cormac McCarthy’s Novels
His novels are full of food scenes, often in modest digs. Why do they resonate so much?
Book Review: ‘Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides: A Biography’
A new biography examines what made the prolific travel writer and transgender figure so driven, and who was ignored along the way.
Milton Viorst, Writer Who Chronicled the Middle East, Dies at 92
He wrote that the Six-Day War was a necessary prelude to peace, but he also warned that the conflict would continue without Palestinian statehood.
The Library of Things, the Inconstant Gardener and How We Lived Then
Our critic recommends old and new books.
Book Review: ‘Motherfield,’ by Julia Cimafiejeva
In “Motherfield,” her first collection to appear in English, Julia Cimafiejeva grapples with questions of language, nationalism and oppression.
‘Des Moines’ Review: Drowning in the Drink
A new production of Denis Johnson’s final play showcases many of his signatures: deadpan absurdism, misfit characters, heavy drinking and statements on the bleak fact of human mortality.
Book Review: ‘You Can’t Kill Snow White,’ by Beatrice Alemagna
Beatrice Alemagna’s “You Can’t Kill Snow White,” a picture book for older kids, mines the brutal envy that underpins the original Brothers Grimm tale.
Book Review: ‘Alte Zachen/Old Things,’ by Ziggy Hanaor, and ‘My Neighborhood,’ by María José Ferrada
These old people don’t exist only for their grandchildren, if they have any, and they don’t dispense wisdom or soup.
A Child’s Drawing Tucked in an Agatha Christie Book Is Its Own Mystery
A true-crime blogger in Virginia found a hand-drawn card signed “To Mum, love from Kit” in a used copy of “The ABC Murders” and set out to return it.
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