Book Review: ‘I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,’ by Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore’s new novel, “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,” braids a historical ghost story with a zombie romance.
Book Review: ‘Girlfriend on Mars,’ by Deborah Willis
In Deborah Willis’s novel “Girlfriend on Mars,” a young woman enters a reality-TV contest to leave the planet, and her marijuana-farming boyfriend, behind.
Book Review: ‘Wannabe,’ by Aisha Harris
In her essay collection “Wannabe,” Aisha Harris argues that Black critics can both appreciate, and demand more from, shifts in popular culture.
WW Norton, a Defiant Book Publisher, Throws a 100th Anniversary Party
Rita Dove, Michael Lewis and Richard Powers were among the authors who took part in a crowded, swinging party at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan.
Owen Gingerich, Astronomer Who Saw God in the Cosmos, Dies at 93
He wrote and lectured widely, often on the theme that religion and science were not incompatible. He also chased down 600 copies of Copernicus’s landmark book.
Book Review: ‘To Name the Bigger Lie,’ by Sarah Viren
This is the question at the heart of “To Name the Bigger Lie,” by Sarah Viren, which tries to make sense of two disturbing episodes from her life in the context of a culture where truth itself is increasingly in dispute.
Book Review: ‘Burn It Down,’ by Maureen Ryan
The journalist Maureen Ryan is mad as hell about what goes on behind the entertainment-biz scenes. Her new book tells tales, and proposes remedies.
'The Wind Knows My Name' is a reference and a refrain in the search for home
Isabel Allende's latest is a tale of two child immigrants — a boy who escapes Nazi occupied Vienna in 1938 and a girl who escapes military gangs in El Salvador in 2019 — and their shared experience.
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Libros y autores de ciencia ficción latinoamericana
Los relatos, en español y portugués, son radicales, rebosantes de tecnochamanes y estética indígena futurista, pero también abrevan de la herencia europea y africana de la región.
Science Fiction From Latin America, With Zombie Dissidents and Aliens in the Amazon
A new wave of writers is making the genre its own, rooting it in local homelands and histories.
Book Review: ‘Mozart in Motion,’ by Patrick Mackie
In Patrick Mackie’s “Mozart in Motion,” the socially observant composer embraces modernity.
Book Review: ‘You Can’t Stay Here Forever,’ by Katherine Lin
In her debut novel, “You Can’t Stay Here Forever,” Katherine Lin follows a young widow and her best friend to the French Riviera.
Summer Book Preview and 9 Thrillers to Read
Gilbert Cruz is joined by The Times’s thriller columnist, Sarah Lyall, to talk about some great suspenseful titles to check out this summer. And the editor Joumana Khatib gives her picks for books to look out for between now and Labor Day.
Book Review: ‘Say Anarcha,’ by J.C. Hallman
“Say Anarcha” is J.C. Hallman’s meticulous biography of the enslaved woman who suffered unimaginable horrors at the hands of a lauded doctor.
New Crime Books From Katie Siegel, James Wolff and More
In new crime novels from Victoria Kielland, James Wolff, Katie Siegel and Michael McGarrity, the past is hard to shake.
Newly Published, From the Scientific Method to Éric Vuillard
A selection of recently published books.
Pride, Illustrated: 6 Comics and Graphic Novels to Read This June
These recent, new and upcoming books with L.G.B.T.Q. characters offer adventure stories, personal recollections, a riff on a famous novel and more.
Relationships are the true heart of 1940s dystopian novel 'Kallocain'
Karin Boye's novel is an outlier in that it was authored by a woman and, though narrated by a man, still expresses interest in women's inner life and acknowledges the subtleties of sexism.
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'All the Sinners Bleed' elegantly walks a fine line between horror and crime fiction
S.A. Cosby's latest is a dark, wildly entertaining crime novel with religious undertones — and one that tackles timely issues while never losing itself or sounding preachy.
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24 New Fiction Books to Read This Summer
A sequel to Colson Whitehead’s “Harlem Shuffle,” new stories from Jamel Brinkley, a debut novel about a teenager who worked for Andy Warhol — and more.
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