As a student, Anand Giridharadas asked V.S. Naipaul to dinner on a lark — and, when Naipaul accepted, carried him up three flights of stairs to his apartment. “It was strange and beautiful,” says Giridharadas, whose new book is “The Persuaders,” “to carry the man who had taught me to write.”
In a post-democratic America, the characters in Saunders’s story collection “Liberation Day” are waiting for the end. But what if it never comes?
A crop of recent novels strains against the expectations of a publishing industry attempting to embrace diversity.
This seems as if it would be a simple meditation on apricots, but the poem is more comfortable within its own mysteries.
He later became an unexpected ally of the science establishment in the face of attacks by climate deniers and conspiracy theorists.
In a new book, the cultural critic Maya Phillips explores the impact and evolution of nerd culture, especially in her own life.
“No one should read more than one poem at a time from this book.”
“The Persuaders,” by Anand Giridharadas, profiles progressive activists and organizers who are embracing bold tactics to persuade other Americans to change their views.
Bernardine Evaristo, whose “Girl, Woman, Other” won the Booker Prize, invites readers into London, a city whose rich literary landscape is “for everyone, not just the privileged few.”
A selection of books published this week.
A noted political scientist, he saw parties periodically realigning themselves in stark fashion, presaging the rise of Donald Trump.
He was known for his scholarly and popular writings about historical phenomena. But he was best known for writing about losing the use of his legs.
In “Daughters of the New Year,” E.M. Tran explores assimilation, rebellion and the power of ancestry, as seen through the history of one Vietnamese family.
Andrew Miller’s novel “The Slowworm’s Song” reckons with conflicts both personal and national.
The artist Fiza Khatri envisions new releases by John Banville, Yiyun Li and more.
In Andy Davidson’s “The Hollow Kind,” an inherited turpentine farm is haunted by generations of suffering.
In new novels by Carlie Sorosiak, Lynne Rae Perkins and Katherine Applegate, animals are emblems of how we humans treat one another.
With his first story collection, “Illuminations,” the British writer and comic-book titan works his subversive power on a smaller scale.
“Marigold and Rose” explores the inner lives of two very different sisters.
With legions of devoted fans and a knack for high-voltage emotional drama, Hoover has sold more than 20 million books. And she’s done it her way.
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